Adlestrop (/ˈædəlstrɒp/) is a village and civil parish in the Cotswolds, 3 miles (5 km) east of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, on the county boundary with Oxfordshire.

The Cotswold Line railway passes along the Evenlode valley southwest of the village and until 1966 had a station here.

The village is best known for the 1917 poem "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas, which tells of an unexpected stop at the station.

The name is derived from the Old English þrop for a village, combined with the name of a person called Tātel or Tǣtel.

[5] King Coenred of Mercia is said to have granted the manor of Adlestrop to Evesham Abbey in AD 708.

[6] In 1553 the Crown sold Adlestrop manor to Sir Thomas Leigh, who in 1558 was elected Lord Mayor of London.

The younger William chose to live at Adlestrop, and had a barn near the parish church converted into a manor house.

In 1759–62 much of the house was demolished and rebuilt on a larger scale to designs by the Gothic Revival architect Sanderson Miller.

[14] Adlestrop has a post office and village shop that sells groceries and in the summer months serves teas.

A station was opened about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) southwest of Adlestrop village where the main road (now the A436) crosses the river.

The poem describes an uneventful journey that Thomas took on 24 June 1914 on the Oxford to Worcester express.

The train made a scheduled[18] stop at Adlestrop railway station, which the poet thought was unscheduled.

He did not alight from the train, but describes a moment of calm pause in which "a blackbird sang close by, and... all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire".

And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky.