Prescott Speed Hill Climb, Cheltenham

Name: Prescott Speed Hill Climb
Address: Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1242 673136

#2 among attractions in Cheltenham

Sport venue, Sport, Sport complex

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Prescott Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Gloucestershire, England. The course used for most events is 1,128 yards in length, and the hill record is held by Wallace Menzies who took the outright hill record in a Gould GR59M single seater with a time of 34.65 seconds on Sunday 5 September 2021. The track was extended in 1960 to form the present Long Course. There is also a "Short Course" of 880 yards, now used only by meetings organised by the Vintage Sports-Car Club. ()

Opened: 1938 (87 years ago)Coordinates: 51°57'54"N, 2°1'34"W

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Cheltenham United Kingdom

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+44 1242 673136

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Day trips

Prescott Speed Hill Climb – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Sudeley Castle, Whaddon Road, Hailes Abbey, Pittville Park.

3.2 miE
Fortress with artefacts and famous gardens
Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe
82 min walk • Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Sudeley Castle emerges as a quintessential example of England's rich historical tapestry. This enchanting castle, located in the picturesque town of Winchcombe, offers visitors a unique glimpse into the country's royal past.
4.3 miS
Sport venue, Sport, Arenas and stadiums
Whaddon Road, Cheltenham
110 min walk • Whaddon Road, known as the Jonny-Rocks Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Cheltenham, England. It is the home ground of Cheltenham Town F.C. It has a total capacity of 7,066, with a mixture of seating and terracing.
4.2 miE
Ruins, Monuments and statues, History museum
Hailes Abbey, Broadway
107 min walk • Hailes Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey, in the small village of Hailes, two miles northeast of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. It was founded in 1246 as a daughter establishment of Beaulieu Abbey. The abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. Little remains of the abbey. It is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.
4.2 miSW
Park
Pittville Park, Cheltenham
109 min walk • The Pittville Pump Room was the last and largest of the spa buildings to be built in Cheltenham. The benefits of Cheltenham's mineral waters had been recognised since 1716, but not until after the arrival of Henry Skillicorne in 1738 did serious exploitation of their potential as an attraction begin.
3.5 miSE
Historical place, Archaeological site
Belas Knap, Winchcombe
90 min walk • Belas Knap is a neolithic, chambered long barrow situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham and Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument in the care of English Heritage but managed by Gloucestershire County Council. "Belas" is possibly derived...
3.9 miNE
Church
St Andrew's Church, Cotswold Water Park
99 min walk • St Andrew's Church, Toddington is a Grade I Listed Building in the town of Toddington, Gloucestershire, England. The present church is the third to occupy the site.
1.5 miS
51°56'36"N • 2°1'4"W
Cleeve Hill Golf Course, Cotswold Water Park
40 min walk • Golf
4 miSW
Architecture, Museum, Historical place
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
103 min walk • Pittville School is a coeducational foundation secondary school located in the Pittville area of Cheltenham in the English county of Gloucestershire.
1.8 miSW
Church
St Michael & All Angels Church, Bishop's Cleeve
46 min walk • St Michael & All Angels is the Anglican church in the village of Bishop's Cleeve, just north of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. Informally the church is known simply as St Michael's.
2.6 miE
Monastery
Winchcombe Railway Museum, Winchcombe
66 min walk • Winchcombe Abbey is a now-vanished Benedictine abbey in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire; this abbey was once in the heart of Mercia, an Anglo Saxon kingdom at the time of the Heptarchy in England.
2.4 miN
Church, Architecture, Historical place
St Mary's Church
62 min walk • St Mary's Church, is a historic Anglican church at Little Washbourne in the civil parish of Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, England under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

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Train

Gotherington (14 min walk)