Wotton-under-Edge is a market community within the Stroud area of Gloucestershire, England. Located near the southern fringe of the Cotswolds, the Cotswold Way long-distance footpath travels through the community. Depending on the B4058, Wotton has to do with 5 miles (8.0 km) from the M5 freeway. The nearby railway station is Cam and Dursley, 7 miles (11 kilometres) away by road, on the Bristol to Birmingham line. The town is reasonably well offered for a community of its dimension. It has a number of pubs and also a hotel, and also a variety of takeaways as well as restaurants. It can be rather dynamic in the evening compared to many others of its dimension. It has several active social groups, such as Scouts, Guides, a horticulture club as well as the Wotton Lions. In 1958, local individuals as well as institution trainees built the community pool, which was completed in 1961. Subsequently the swimming pool has actually had solar and electrical heating set up. In 1999 with the fund increasing support of neighborhood groups, a retracting enclosure was fitted to prolong the swimming period. In 2002, adhering to the closure of the regional movie theater, a team of volunteers raised funds for a repair to become one of the very first electronic cinemas in the UK. It re-opened in 2005 as a 100-seat center inside an old stable lawn, when part of the Crown Inn which closed in 1911. Films were first shown in the old Banqueting Hall of the Inn as well as moved to the secure lawn some years later, because of the popularity of movies. The Wotton Electric Picture House (the original name) is now a flourishing location.