Bishops Cleeve
Bishop's Cleeve is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England.
Bishop's Cleeve is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. The village lies at the foot of Cleeve Hill, the highest point in the Cotswolds. Bishop's Cleeve had a population of 10,612 in 2011, which has increased to 14,068 in the 2021 Census. The village is 13 miles (21 km) from Gloucester and 44 miles (71 km) from Oxford. The village is also close to the towns of Cheltenham 4.6 miles (7.4 km), Tewkesbury 7.3 miles (11.7 km), Evesham 13.2 miles (21.2 km), and Malvern 20 miles (32 km).
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Worth seeing in and around Bishops Cleeve
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pittville Pump Room
The Pittville Pump Room was the last and largest of the spa buildings to be built in Cheltenham. The benefits of Cheltenham's mineral waters had been recognised since 1716, but not until after the arrival of Henry Skillicorne in 1738 did serious exploitation of their potential as an attraction begin.
3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Ellenborough Park Hotel
Ellenborough Park Hotel is a country house hotel in Southam, about 2+1⁄2 miles northeast of the centre of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.6 km · building in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary
St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Prestbury, Gloucestershire and has been Grade II* listed since 1960. The earliest identifiable fabric of the building, the west tower, dates from the 13th century.
3.8 km · church in Prestbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Dixton Manor
Dixton Manor is a Grade II*-listed 16th-century manor house in the south of Alderton parish, Gloucestershire, England. The manor was built for John Higford in 1555.
3.8 km · historic site in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Michael & All Angels Church, Bishop's Cleeve
St Michael & All Angels is the Anglican church in the village of Bishop's Cleeve, just north of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. Informally the church is known simply as St Michael's.
200 m · church in Bishop's Cleeve, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bishops Cleeve
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 60 km · Bristol (BRS), 77 km · Cardiff (CWL), 108 km
- Stations
- Cheltenham Racecourse railway station, 2.6 km · Gotherington railway station, 2.8 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Bishops Cleeve60 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
- Bristol → Bishops Cleeve66 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
- London → Bishops Cleeve142 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bishops Cleeve
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bishops Cleeve. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAn alternative off-road walking route is The Honeybourne Line but there have been muggings at night.
- Get inThere are also many private aircraft there, which can be chartered.
- Go nextCirencester, the 'capital of the Cotswolds' is a half hour drive to the south Bristol is a longer day trip to the south.
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- Gotheringtonvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.3 km
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