Horsley, Gloucestershire

{{Short description|Village in Gloucestershire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2015}}

{{infobox UK place

|official_name= Horsley

|country= England

|region= South West England

|static_image_name= Horsley Church - geograph.org.uk - 192476.jpg

|static_image_caption=St Martin's Church, Horsley

|population= 820

|population_ref= {{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124814&c=GL6+0QA&d=16&e=62&g=6427959&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427713718692&enc=1|title=Civil parish population 2011|access-date= 30 March 2015}}

|os_grid_reference= ST830980

|post_town= Stroud

|postcode_area= GL

|postcode_district= GL6

|dial_code= 01453

|constituency_westminster= Stroud

|shire_district= Stroud

|shire_county= Gloucestershire

|coordinates = {{coord|51.681|-2.235|type:city_reegion:GB|display=inline,title}}

}}Horsley is a village and civil parish about one and a half miles south-west of the small Cotswold market town of Nailsworth. The origins of the name Horsley are much debated, although it is thought to be derived from the pre-7th-century Old English phrase, "horse-lega", meaning "place of horses".{{Cite book|title=A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11, Bisley and Longtree Hundreds|last=Baggs|first=A P|publisher=Victoria County History|year=1976|location=London}}

A habitation was recorded in 1327 at Barton End, named after a barton on the manor estate.Gloucestershire Subsidy Roll, 1327, 16. The village sprung from cross-roads east of St Martin Church. The Parish is bisected from south to north by the Bath-Gloucester, built in 1780.