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Upton St Leonards

Upton St Leonards is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire.

Upton St Leonards
Upton St Leonards · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Upton St Leonards is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire. Forming part of the district of Stroud, it is a mile or so north of the A46 road between Stroud and Cheltenham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upton St Leonards

10 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.

  1. 01
    Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake

    The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England. Participants race down the 200-yard long hill chasing a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese.

    2.5 km · annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, near Gloucester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Prinknash Abbey

    Prinknash Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery in the Vale of Gloucester in the Diocese of Clifton, near the village of Cranham, Gloucestershire. It belongs to the English Province of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation, which is itself part of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation.

    1.7 km · monastery in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Robinswood Hill

    Robinswood Hill is a hill and country park to the south of the city centre of Gloucester, close to the Stroud Road. It rises to 650 ft, and is owned and managed by Gloucester City Council's Countryside Unit.

    2.6 km · hill in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods

    Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods is a 665.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954. The Commons and Beechwoods lie within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    3.8 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Holcombe House

    Holcombe House is a large Grade II* listed country house located near Painswick, Gloucestershire. The house is a fine example of an Arts and Crafts Cotswolds manor house.

    3.4 km · country house in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Barnabas Church, Gloucester

    St Barnabas Church is a Grade II* listed building located in Stroud Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. It was built in 1938–40 and obtained its Grade II status on 9 March 1982.

    3.4 km · church in Tuffley, Gloucester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Margaret

    St Margaret's Church is a 13th-century Church of England church in the village of Whaddon, Gloucestershire, England. It has been a grade II* listed building since 10 January 1955.

    3.5 km · church in Whaddon, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England,, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tredworth Road Cemetery

    Tredworth Road Cemetery, sometimes known as Gloucester Old Cemetery, is a cemetery in Gloucester, England, that is run by Gloucester City Council. In addition, it contains over 250 war graves maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

    3.1 km · cemetery in Gloucester, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    333, Stroud Road

    333 Stroud Road is a former farmhouse on Stroud Road, Tuffley, Gloucester. It became a Grade II listed building on 12 March 1973.

    3.3 km · house in Tuffley, Gloucester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Coney Hill Cemetery and Crematorium

    Coney Hill Crematorium, sometimes known as Coney Hill Crem, is a cemetery and Crematorium in Gloucester, England, that is run by Gloucester City Council. In addition, it contains 8 war graves maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the cemetery chapel was previously recorded as Grade listed by Historic England in 1935.

    3 km · cemetery and Cremarorium in Gloucester, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Upton St Leonards

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 62 km · Birmingham (BHX), 76 km · Cardiff (CWL), 93 km
  • Bristol → Upton St Leonards
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Upton St Leonards
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Upton St Leonards
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upton St Leonards

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 Upton St Leonards. 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

    142 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    186 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    459 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    495 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    511 km

If you know how people move in Upton St Leonards – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Upton St Leonards

Upton St Leonards is 50 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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