Wotton-under-Edge is a market town within the Stroud area of Gloucestershire, England. Situated near the southern fringe of the Cotswolds, the Cotswold Way long-distance walkway travels through the town. Standing on the B4058, Wotton is about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the M5 freeway. The closest train station is Cam and Dursley, 7 miles (11 km) away by road, on the Bristol to Birmingham line. The community is fairly well offered for a town of its size. It has a number of bars and also a hotel, as well as a variety of takeaways and also restaurants. It can be rather lively during the night compared to many others of its dimension. It has numerous active social groups, such as Scouts, Guides, a gardening club and also the Wotton Lions. In 1958, neighborhood people and college trainees built the community swimming pool, which was finished in 1961. Ultimately the swimming pool has actually had solar and electric home heating set up. In 1999 with the fund increasing assistance of neighborhood teams, a retracting unit was fitted to lengthen the swimming period. In 2002, adhering to the closure of the neighborhood cinema, a team of volunteers increased funds for a refurbishment to become one of the first electronic cinemas in the UK. It re-opened in 2005 as a 100-seat facility inside an old steady lawn, once part of the Crown Inn which enclosed 1911. Movies were first received the old Banqueting Hall of the Inn as well as transferred to the stable lawn some years later on, as a result of the appeal of movies. The Wotton Electric Picture House (the original name) is currently a growing venue.