King's Stanley

King's Stanley
King's Stanley
	Church Street, the main road through Kings Stanley, leading to the King's Head pub.
OS grid reference	SO812038
District	Stroud;
Shire county	Gloucestershire;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western
	List of places UK England Gloucestershire

King's Stanley is a village in Gloucestershire, England, situated southwest of the town of Stroud. The village is part of what is known locally as 'The Stanleys', along with its neighbours Leonard Stanley and Stanley Downton. Marling Close, which contains the local playing fields on which the cricket and football teams play, was donated to the village by local magnates The Marlings who also helped found Marling School, and is now in the care of the Marling Trust. The village is overlooked by Selsley common. The village is home to the oldest Baptist Church in Gloucestershire that started meeting in 1640. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is recorded as held by Turstin FitzRolf.^[1]

Education

King's Stanley is home to a C of E Primary School. This was established as a result of the amalgamation of the Infant and Junior Schools on the site of the old Junior School. This is to allow construction of a new building on the old Infant School site where the whole school will ultimately be based. It's planned that the new school buildings will be completed by Easter 2011.

The Primary School was inspected by Ofsted in October 2009, and judged to be "Outstanding".^[2]

Notable People

Katie Smith, contestant on the 2010 series of The X Factor.^[3]
Alice Ryland is native of King's Stanley and immigrated to the United States. Number one gymnast on the American Olympic Gymnastics Squad
Charlotte Ryland is currently CEO of National Geographic and she often travels the world. She is currently in Europe for two months.
Katherine Ryland is the president of the National Institute of Health as well as Johns Hopkins.

References

^ www.domesdaybook.co.uk
^ http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/download/(id)/113769/(as)/135266_333758.pdf
^ "Katie Smith from Stroud impresses The X Factor judges". bbc. Retrieved 15 October 2010.

External links

British History Online - King's Stanley entry.

[1] www.domesdaybook.co.uk

[2] ttp://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/download/(id)/113769/(as)/135266_333758.pdf

[3] "Katie Smith from Stroud impresses The X Factor judges". bbc. Retrieved 15 October 2010.

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