Places to explore near Cheltenham

A Grade II-listed 1935 lido with a heated 50 m pool and fountain in gardens on the edge of Cheltenham's centre.

0.7 km S

Grandest of Cheltenham's Regency spa buildings, a colonnaded pump room set in its own park.

1.4 km N

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

1.7 km E

Slender pinnacle of rock left by quarrymen on Leckhampton Hill, poised above Cheltenham.

3 km S

A hundred miles of honeyed limestone, beech hangers and escarpment views to the Severn.

3.7 km E · Gloucestershire, Somerset & Worcestershire

Organic cidery near Cheltenham with a taproom, street food and cider-and-cheese tastings.

3.9 km SE

Highest point of the Cotswolds, wide escarpment views.

5 km NE

Elizabethan country-house hotel dining below Cleeve Hill outside Cheltenham.

5.5 km SW

Well-preserved Neolithic chambered long barrow.

7.6 km NE

Tudor castle and gardens, burial of Katherine Parr.

9.4 km NE

A Cotswold coaching inn on Winchcombe's North Street, named Town Pub of the Year 2021.

9.5 km NE

Unspoilt market town and walkers' base below Sudeley Castle, sitting on the Cotswold Way.

10.5 km NE · Gloucestershire

One of England's most complete Saxon chapels, built in 1056 and rediscovered inside a farmhouse at Deerhurst.

11.1 km NW

Great Norman abbey church saved by the town at the Dissolution, with a massive tower and medieval tombs.

11.7 km NW

Timber-framed medieval town at the meeting of Severn and Avon, dominated by its great Norman abbey.

11.7 km NW · Gloucestershire

Great Norman-and-Gothic cathedral with a soaring tower and a fan-vaulted cloister filmed for Harry Potter.

12.5 km W

Restored Victorian dock basin of tall brick warehouses, now museums, shops and a waterside brewery.

13 km W

Iron Age hillfort and golf-course common above Painswick, with wide views across the Severn Vale.

13.3 km SW

One of Britain's grandest villas with mosaics.

13.5 km SE

Boston to Abbotsbury down the limestone belt — 290 miles waymarked in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

13.5 km SE · spans 10 counties

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

13.7 km SE · spans 14 counties

Cotswold estate hamlet by Stanway House, with a 17th-century gatehouse, a medieval tithe barn and the world's tallest gravity fountain

14.8 km NE · Gloucestershire

The only complete rococo garden left in England, laid out in the 1740s.

14.9 km SW

'Queen of the Cotswolds', a hillside town of pale stone whose churchyard holds ninety-nine clipped yews.

15.2 km SW · Gloucestershire

Perfectly preserved single street of gabled cottages under Shenberrow Hill, without a shop or tearoom to break the spell.

16.4 km NE · Gloucestershire

Laurie Lee's Cotswold valley local, on The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Pubs.

17 km SW

Isolated outlier of the Cotswolds rising over the Vale, its summit crowned by the folly tower of Parsons Folly, a landmark for miles.

17.8 km N

Small medieval wool town of unspoilt streets and cottages around one of the finest Cotswold churches.

17.9 km SE · Gloucestershire

Cotswold manor packed with an eccentric collection.

18.4 km NE

Hilltop village of tight stone cottages around a small green, above the manor made famous by collector Charles Wade.

18.5 km NE · Gloucestershire

Tidal wave that sweeps upriver against the current on the Severn, ridden by surfers on the biggest tides.

18.7 km W

Timber-and-thatch village at the foot of Bredon Hill with a wide chestnut-lined main street.

19.1 km N · Worcestershire

Former rectory turned country-house hotel in one of the quietest Cotswold villages.

20.4 km E

Folly tower on the Cotswold edge, vast views.

20.7 km NE

One of Britain's last thatched farm cider houses, cider poured by the jug and drunk in the yard or a lean-to shelter.

20.7 km N

Quiet 'doubly thankful' village of unspoilt cottages a mile up the Eye from its better-known neighbour.

20.7 km E · Gloucestershire

Honey-coloured Cotswold-edge village with a broad green high street of Arts and Crafts galleries below Broadway Tower.

21 km NE · Worcestershire

One of England's oldest open-air pools, opened in 1870 beside Cirencester Park, spring-fed and run by volunteers.

21.2 km S

Honey-stone cottages line the little River Eye, crossed by footbridges and turned by an old red-brick water mill.

21.3 km E · Gloucestershire

The influential garden Rosemary Verey made her own, with a knot garden and laburnum walk.

21.5 km SE

A steep little ridge of very old rock rising straight out of the Severn plain, with easy tops and views for miles

21.5 km NW

'Capital of the Cotswolds', a handsome market town on Roman Corinium with a cathedral-like church and a great park.

21.6 km S · Gloucestershire

Windrush-side village where low stone bridges step across the river through a long green, earning it the tag 'Venice of the Cotswolds'.

21.7 km E · Gloucestershire

Ornate classical portal of one of Britain's longest canal tunnels, in the woods above Coates.

21.8 km S

Cotswold-edge village inn near Stroud recognised by the South West's guide.

21.8 km SW

Weavers' cottages Morris called England's loveliest.

22.6 km SE · Gloucestershire

Ancient ridge rising abruptly above the Severn plain.

22.8 km NW

Cotswold country-house hotel restaurant above the village of Broadway.

23 km NE

Cotswold pub on Minchinhampton Common, an olive best country pub.

23 km S

The river from its Cotswold trickle to the Thames Barrier — the gentlest long walk in Britain.

23 km S · spans 7 counties

Capability Brown's first landscape and mansion.

23.4 km N

A parish church in Worcestershire.

23.4 km N

Georgian market town on the Avon crowned by the medieval lantern tower of Pershore Abbey.

23.8 km N · Worcestershire

A Mughal-style palace of about 1805 that inspired the Brighton Pavilion.

24.2 km E

Highest of the Cotswold market towns, built around a broad square where sheep fairs once filled the narrow tuning-fork alleys.

24.2 km E · Gloucestershire

Steeply set village of old silk-mill streams and golden cottages, familiar as a filming location for Father Brown.

24.7 km NE · Gloucestershire

A figure-of-eight on the old Saxon town of Winchcombe, taking in Cleeve Common, Belas Knap long barrow and Hailes Abbey.

5 km NE · Gloucestershire

Chepstow to Tewkesbury the long way round: the Forest of Dean, a Severn crossing at Gloucester and a climb over the Cotswold edge.

5.6 km SW · Gloucestershire

A country park in Gloucestershire.

5.6 km S

Britain's longest riverside walk, shadowing the Severn from its peat-hag source on Plynlimon to the docks at Bristol.

10.9 km W · spans 5 counties

Britain's longest river in its working stretch — locks and lave-net weirs from Stourport down to Gloucester.

10.9 km W · Worcestershire & Gloucestershire

A National Trust place in Gloucestershire.

12 km SW

Shakespeare's Avon, restored to navigation by volunteers — from Stratford through Evesham's orchard country to the Severn at Tewkesbury.

12.3 km NW · Worcestershire, Warwickshire & Gloucestershire