Gloucester

Plans unfold to move to Gloucester in 2018. After a London life and all that means...endless stuff to do and crazy expensive...I'm curious to hear from anyone out there who knows Gloucester and may even have made a similar move. What's it like?

Fuxking awesome

We moved in January to a little village 8 miles away. The people are lovely, life is at a more chilled pace, it's beautiful and not at Cotswold prices.

Gloucester itself feels a little run down in places.

I don't live there but know the area a bit. I get the impression with Gloucester that nearby Cheltenham drains away all the Range Rover / aspirational / Guardian 'let's move to...' types.
This may well be a good thing but yes, it does mean the city is a bit run down as shops tend to follow the money.

There's still a lot of 60s municipal concrete about but at least the majority of it is low rise.

Beautiful countryside (and cycling) right on the doorstep, as I guess you know.

Gloucestershire in general is very much conservative territory, if that's an issue. There are lots of villages and quiet small towns around which I'd be tempted by myself - Stroud / Nailsworth / Wotton etc

only 12 miles away or so is herefordshire
easy commute to gloucester

now that is a proper county

Gloucester the city is a shithouse but the county is lovely

Blimey. Thanks. All good stuff. To clarify, we will move to Longlevens. So not exactly Gloucester and no choice about a village nearby. A teenager needing a 6th form college too. And just so you Gloucester chaps and chappesses know, my wife is taking on secondary education director in Oxon, Glos, Wilts. You parents with teenagers.....stand by yer beds!

I grew up in Gloucestershire, and it is mainly lovely. Gloucester itself can be a bit grimy and unwelcoming.
I used to have lots of friends from Stroud, who used to proudly tell me that relative to its size, it had the highest proportion of registered heroin addicts of anywhere in the British Isles, which is nice.

I live just south of Gloucester - all above comments valid - countyside around nice but town is uninspiring - great cathedral, pubs and canal - Longlevens a good place to land. Some really good cycling country around.

Come and say hi!

Will do dj

There is one of the finest service stations in the UK on the M5 near Gloucester. Definitely worth a day out when you move.

Can't wait!

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We just need to make it look like there is a fixie bike scene over here.

Finally went there for the first time last weekend. It’s like a little boutique farmers market on a motorway with great food. Bizarre but awesome.

Think it's set up by the same family that run Tebay services in Cumbria, now that's a service station with good food and stunning views (apart from the M6).

I recently moved to Tewkesbury, taking most of Worcestershire's fixie bikes with me.

It is, and supplied by the farm that it backs on to.

Awesome

Time for a fixie twatter ride

who did i see riding a blue (Canyon?) track bike with deep profile wheels on the outskirts of Gloucester today?

Sorry for the dredge ... anyone got any good 100km-ish routes starting and ending near Longlevens? I'll be back there for a week in September, COVID permitting, and will have a new bike to break in.

Even some good roads/hills to build a route around would be grand. I know nothing of the area.

Possibly slightly more than a 100km but I'd look at a route out West to ride Gospel Pass from the Abergavenny side and then back via the Wye Valley. That's some lovely riding....

I did that from Cheltenham yesterday.

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Unless you’re heading into the Forest of Dean I’d just go north to Tirley bridge, far nicer than crossing the Severn nr Gloucester … then almost anything between there and Malvern is gold. As is common east of Malvern (Castlemorton).

You can get over a Malvern climb such as Hollybush and back within 100km. They’re nice weekday evening rides at this time of year (although with lights in Sept).

Awesome, thanks all. Not sure how hard I'll be going as the first ride on a new bike, but thats given me some stuff to plan a route around.

Ah yeah, as above … north or north/west is probably the quickest way to quiet, flattish roads ideal for a shakedown ride.