Ebley, Stroud - Cider Factories, Inns, Laundries, Orphanage and an Anglo-French Ladies’ College Ebley village, on the old road between Cainscross and Stonehouse, has been part of Cainscross Parish since 1894. Ebley Mill and the Snow Mill have new uses and a lot more has changed since Ebley was my home. I have discovered long-forgotten stories of some of the families and their businesses in Ebley, while old photographs, adverts and maps give us view into the past. There used to be six inns at Ebley. The Bell, Clothiers Arms, Lamb and Malakoff inns closed long ago, the Coach and Horses recently, so the only one remaining open is the Old Crown. Some were run by several generations of the same family and the innkeepers often had another trade; their stories are told here. Robbins Close, off Devereaux Crescent, takes its name from a family’s cider factory, but Harper’s cider factory in Bridge Road has lost its name to Dolphin Mundy, the last business there. The high-class Stroud Sanitary Laundry was in an old Ebley Mill building, until it moved into the empty Harper cider factory. Ebley Court was built for the clothier running Ebley Mill, but for a while it housed the Kimmins family’s very successful Anglo-French School; an ornamental tree in its grounds has given Monkey Puzzle Close its name. This generously-illustrated book also tells the story of Ebley House and how it became an orphanage, of Ebley Saw Mills, and of families who lived in the Crossley, Gladstone and Richmond Buildings and at The Barracks.