Cheltenham
Cheltenham is a historic spa town and borough adjacent to the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England.
Cheltenham is a historic spa town and borough adjacent to the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort following the discovery of mineral springs in 1716, and claims to be the most complete Regency town in Britain. It is directly northeast of Gloucester.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Promenade
- 02Imperial Gardens
- 03Pittville Park
Laid out in the early 19th century as the centre of the then-new residential area of Pittville.
- 04Cleeve Hill
The highest point of the Cotswolds hill range and in the county of Gloucestershire, at 1,083 feet (330 m).
- 05The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum
- 06Holst Birthplace Museum
The Regency terrace house where Gustav Holst, composer of The Planets was born in 1874.
From Wikivoyage: Cheltenham, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Cheltenham
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 65 km · Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Cardiff (CWL), 104 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Cheltenham66 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–10
- Bristol → Cheltenham61 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- London → Cheltenham142 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–18
- 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 Cheltenham
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 Cheltenham. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Cheltenham, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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