Stanway, Gloucestershire

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Stanway House (photo by Philip Halling)

Stanway is a small crossroads village in the English county of Gloucestershire.

It is part of the Tewkesbury Borough Council area. The village is dominated by Stanway House, a Jacobean manor house which has been a popular location as a film set. Stanway House is owned by the Earl of Wemyss and March. It is occupied by his son and heir, Lord Neidpath, who has pursued, over a number of years, a restoration program. One fruit of this is the largest gravity fed fountain on Earth. With all valves open, this fountain can reach a height of 300 feet (about 90 metres).

It is about 1 mile south of Stanton, a typical stone-built village of the North Cotswolds (Pevsner calls it 'architecturally, the most distinguished of the smaller villages in the North Cotswolds'). Both villages are on the Cotswold Way