Consecrated area of land in outskirts of Stroud (6)
I believe the answer is:
sacred
'consecrated' is the definition.
('sacred' can be a synonym of 'consecrated')
'area of land in outskirts of stroud' is the wordplay.
'area of land' becomes 'acre' (I've seen this before).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outskirts of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'stroud' with its middle taken out is 'sd'.
'acre' inserted into 'sd' is 'SACRED'.
(Other definitions for sacred that I've seen before include "devoted to deity" , "'Consecrated, holy (6)'" , "'Hallowed, holy (6)'" , "Hallowed, consecrated" , "Like gravestones maybe" .)