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Highnam

Highnam is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, three miles (4.8 km) northwest of Gloucester.

Highnam
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The place

Highnam is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, three miles (4.8 km) northwest of Gloucester. It lies just off the A40 towards Ross, west of Alney Island and Over Bridge. It is connected by segregated cycle paths via Over Bridge and Alney Island to Gloucester. The parish includes the villages of Lassington and Over. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 2,014, reducing to 1,916 at the 2011 census. At the 2021 census it had increased to 2,141.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Highnam

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 62 km · Birmingham (BHX), 75 km · Cardiff (CWL), 90 km
  • Bristol → Highnam
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Highnam
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Highnam
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Highnam

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 Highnam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBut, there are aircraft available to charter.

From Wikivoyage: Gloucester (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    149 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    181 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    452 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    488 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    511 km

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Next door to Highnam

Highnam is 51 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.