Cam is a large village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, situated on the edge of the Cotswolds and contiguous with the town of Dursley, north of Bristol and south of Gloucester.
The village has an identifiable centre, with several shops including a pharmacy, a florist, a hardware store and funeral directors, three takeaways, a restaurant, a beauty salon, a combined Post Office and card shop, parish council offices, two pubs including the Berkeley Arms and The Railway Inn and a supermarket clustered loosely around St Bartholemew's Church.
Cam supports three state sector primary schools located in the Woodfields, Hopton and Everlands districts of the village.
There are three public play areas; Woodfield, Cam Green and Jubilee Fields with well maintained play equipment, including swings, carousels, seesaw, spring rockers, skateboard park, gyro spiral, climbers, climbing wall, slides, fitness equipment, basketball courts and football fields.
[5] Peter Currell Brown, author of Smallcreep's Day, lived in Cam and Dursley while working at Lister’s.