The once-extensive manor included Stroud and Chalford, Thrupp, Oakridge, Bussage, Througham and Eastcombe.

[3] The area is noted for the wealth of its Cotswold stone houses of architectural and historic interest.

[4] They include Lypiatt Park, formerly the home of Judge H. B. D. Woodcock and then of the late Modernist sculptor Lynn Chadwick;[5] Nether Lypiatt Manor, formerly the home of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent;[6] Daneway (near Sapperton, but within the parish of Bisley); Over Court; Througham Court (repaired in 1929 for the novelist Sir Michael Sadleir by Norman Jewson);[7] and Jaynes Court, formerly the private residence of Simon Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading (born 1942).

The village prison, which had originally been located in the churchyard, was replaced in 1824 by a two-cell lock-up, where drunks were kept overnight,[8] and petty criminals were detained before appearing before the magistrate.

[9] There is a Saxon wayside cross on the wide verge of Bisley Road, south-west of Stancombe Toll House.