How to find the Friends Meeting House in Cheltenham
The Cheltenham Friends Meeting House is within easy walking
distance of the town centre. It is on the north side of
the dual-carriageway Fairview Road / St Margaret’s Road.
The Meeting House entrance is in
Warwick Place (east off Portland Street), a small
cul-de-sac (not always shown well on street maps of
Cheltenham). There is pedestrian access
at the west end of Warwick Place from the junction of
Winchcombe Street and Fairview Road. There
are several steps up to the Meeting House front door, but a side
gate to the right of the building gives access to the courtyard for
bicycle parking and thence via a ramp inside for wheelchairs. Disabled
badge holders may park in Warwick Place.
The Portland Street and North Place car parks are pay-and-display 7
days a week (Sun 10:00 - 20:00; Mon-Sat 08:00 - 20:00).
People attending Meeting for Worship can buy a concessionary ticket
allowing 52 weeks of Sunday-morning parking in the North Place car park.
These are purchased to order by the Treasurer in batches each quarter
- you cannot buy them as an individual.
Streets in the
immediate area are mostly either no-parking or residents-only parking.
Notes:
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TRAVEL BY CAR:
The road system in Cheltenham is quite complex, and it is
difficult to give universally applicable instructions. Coming to
Cheltenham from most directions, simply following signs for the town
centre should get you quite close to the Meeting House, but your initial
approach may be on the other side of the central pedestrian areas, which are
skirted by the inner ring road system. That route is mostly one-way
clockwise around the centre and passes through
Clarence Street and Albion Street on the adjacent map.
In addition to the one-way traffic directions indicated by arrows
on the map, note that Portland Street, north of St Margaret’s Road,
has a contraflow bus & cycle lane southbound. The Portland Street
car park has exits and entrances on both Portland Street and North Place.
Note that M5 junction 10 has access only to and from the north;
traffic coming from the south should exit for Cheltenham at junction 11.
If you are not familiar with Cheltenham, we recommend that you
click here for a MultiMap street plan of the area
around the Meeting House.
From there you can zoom out to maps
of the surrounding area.
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TRAVEL BY BUS:
The local bus service is sparse on Sunday, but a “D”
bus from Bishops Cleeve usually passes southbound through
Portland Street just before 10:30. Other buses
operate in various directions to and from stops in Pittville Street
(adjacent to the side door of M&S)
and Clarence Street (bottom left corner
of the map above).
The long-distance coach station is in Royal Well Road, a
one-way street. Walking northeastwards along it (ie the same
direction as the traffic flow) will take you via Clarence Parade
to traffic lights at the T-junction with Clarence Street. Turn
right and follow Clarence Street around a bend to the left and
onto the map above. Allow about 10 minutes to walk to the Meeting
House from the coach station.
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TRAVEL BY RAIL:
The rail station is Cheltenham Spa, well outside the town
centre on Gloucester Road. It is about 2.5km away from the Meeting
House - on foot, allow about 40 minutes. Just outside the
station is a roundabout on Gloucester Road. Cross it and follow
Gloucester Road about 750 metres northwest to the traffic-lights
at the junction with
Alstone Lane (on the left) and Saint Georges Road (right). Turn
right into Saint Georges Road and follow it about 950 metres to
the junction with Royal Well Road. Turn left onto Royal Well Road,
following the one-way traffic system. Then follow the directions
as above from the bus station (about another 750 metres to the
Meeting House).
Click here for a MultiMap street plan centred on the Rail station area.
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IF YOU GET LOST:
Should you need to seek directions from local people, it’s useful
to know that some nearby sites and businesses
may be better-known than the Meeting House itself.
The Meeting House is adjacent to the multi-storey Millennium Flats (built
on the site of the former Millennium Restaurant),
and across the road are Blockbuster video rentals,
Maplin electronics, and Majestic wine warehouse.
Click here to view a map of the Cheltenham area,
provided by MultiMap.
Pictures of the Meeting House
Cheltenham Quaker Meeting home page
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