Tetbury

Tetbury is a small market town in Gloucestershire famous for its Royal connections as the home of Prince Charles. It has a wide choice of tea shops, Bistros, Cafes, Pubs and Restaurants serving delicious local produce.

Silver Street, Tetbury

Understand

Get in

By car

By car it is 11 miles north of the M4.

By bus

There are limited bus services in the area from Stroud and Cirencester.

By train

Closest rail station is 🌍 Kemble station in Kemble. The station has frequent services from London Paddington stopping at Reading and Swindon. It continues on to Stroud, Gloucester and Cheltenham.

Get around

See

• 🌍 Market House. built in 1665 
• 🌍 Chavenage House, GL8 8XP, ☎ [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. May to September (2018): 2PM-5PM. Elizabethan manor house that offers guided tours. Adult: £10, Child: £5 (cash only).  
• 🌍 Chipping Steps. medieval cobbled steps and workers houses (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 Tetbury Police Museum & Courtroom, 63 Long St, GL8 8AA, ☎ [phone]. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 Highgrove House and Gardens, Doughton. residence of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall,  
• 🌍 Westonbirt Arboretum, GL8 8QS, ☎ [phone]. Planted in the mid-19th century, one of the finest tree collections in the world.  

Do

• Heritage Trail (signboards and plaques around the town). Walk around the town noting the many historic and listed buildings. (updated May 2016)

Events

• Tetbury Woolsack Race: 28 May 2018. A run up Gumstool Hill (an extremely steep street) with a sack full of wool with the added benefit of a street fair, entertainers, amusement rides, and food vendors. (date needs updating)

Buy

There are a good number of antique shops in the town, mainly on Long Street.

• 🌍 Highgrove Shop, 10 Long St, ☎ [phone]. An upmarket souvenir store; all proceeds go towards The Prince of Wales' charitable foundations. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 Tetbury Sweets & Treats, 25 Church St, ☎ [phone]. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 House of Cheese, 13 Church St, ☎ [phone]. (updated May 2016)

Eat

The Royal Oak, Priory Inn and Hare & Hounds mentioned below also serve good food. On Church street you will find a couple of coffee shops and bakeries.

• 🌍 Hall's Quality Bakers, 4 Chipping St, ☎ [phone]. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 Stargazy Fish Bar, London Rd, ☎ [phone]. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 The Snooty Fox Hotel, Market Pl, ☎ [phone]. (updated May 2016)

Drink

• Royal Oak, 1 Cirencester Rd, GL8 8EY, ☎ [phone]. A grade II listed CAMRA award winning pub with a good choice of ales, beers and a small garden. (updated Oct 2017)

Sleep

• 🌍 Cottage in the Cotswolds, 26 Silver Street, ☎ [phone]. Luxury 4 star 2 bedroom self catering cottage in the Cotswolds. 
• 🌍 The Priory Inn, London Rd, ☎ [phone]. Excellent little gastropub. 
• 🌍 The Hare and Hounds Hotel, Westonbirt, ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 The Royal Oak Tetbury, 1 Cirencester Rd, ☎ [phone]. Pub with a few rooms. Excellent quality, if a little small, rooms. Good choice of real ales in the pub but not real biscuits in the rooms. Friendly staff. (updated May 2016)

Connect

• Tourist Information Centre, 33 Church Street, ☎ [phone]. Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm. (updated May 2016)

Go next

• Malmesbury
• Kemble
• Stroud
• Wotton-under-Edge