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Whitminster

Whitminster is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district, in Gloucestershire, England, on the A38 trunk road approximately 6 miles (10 km) south of Gloucester and 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Stroud.

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The place

Whitminster is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district, in Gloucestershire, England, on the A38 trunk road approximately 6 miles (10 km) south of Gloucester and 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Stroud. The parish population at the 2011 census was 881. The hamlet of Wheatenhurst is signposted from the A38 at Whitminster. Whitminster is close to Junction 13 of the M5 motorway, with Bristol, South Wales and the south Midlands all within an hour's drive.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whitminster

4 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
    Frampton Court

    Frampton Court is a Grade I listed country house and estate of about 1,500 acres in Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, England. It has been owned by the Clifford family since the 11th century.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed country house in Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stonehouse Court Hotel

    The Stonehouse Court is a Grade II* listed manor house in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England which is now a hotel. It is located next to St Cyr's Church and the Stroudwater Canal.

    3.9 km · grade II listed English country house in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Whitminster Church

    St. Andrew's Church is a parish church in Whitminster, Gloucestershire.

    1.7 km · church in Whitminster, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hardwicke Court

    Hardwicke Court is a Grade II* listed country house in Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, England. The house is Late Georgian in style.

    3.8 km · country house in Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Whitminster

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Cardiff (CWL), 82 km · Birmingham (BHX), 86 km
Stations
Stonehouse (Bristol Road) railway station, 3.6 km
  • Bristol → Whitminster
    40 km · quickest by road, 50 min · £4–5
  • Cardiff → Whitminster
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Whitminster
    84 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whitminster

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 Whitminster. 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

    140 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    175 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    462 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    498 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    520 km

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

Around it

Next door to Whitminster

Whitminster is 40 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Eastingtonvillage in Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England2.9 km
  • Frampton on Severnvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Standishvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Moreton Valencevillage and civil parish in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England2 km
  • Fretherne with Saulcivil parish in Stroud, England3 km
  • Saulvillage in Gloucestershire, England2.9 km