Bisley, Gloucestershire

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Bisley is a village in Gloucestershire, England, approximately 4 miles east of Stroud. The parish is today united administratively with the adjoining parish of Lypiatt and the two are usually referred to as Bisley-with-Lypiatt. The manor was formerly extensive, including the villages of Stroud and Chalford, as well as Thrupp, Oakridge, Bussage, Througham and Eastcombe.

Bisley since 1982 has been the home of Jilly Cooper, one of England's most popular and prolific contemporary novelists, and her husband, Leo.

It is also known for the modern housing development "Bearsfield", named so because it is where the Bear was kept.

The area is noted for the wealth of its Cotswold stone houses of architectural and historic interest. They include Lypiatt Park, home of the late Modernist sculptor Lynn Chadwick; Nether Lypiatt Manor, formerly the home of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent; 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); and Jaynes Court, formerly the home of Simon Charles Henry Rufus Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading (b. 1942).