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Gotherington

Gotherington is a village in Gloucestershire, England, with a population of around 995. There are 13 bus stops, one pharmacy, one supermarket, three restaurants and cafés, and the nearest railway station is Gotherington, 1.2 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Gotherington area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Tewkesbury area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 94,884 residents at roughly 229 people per km².

Council
Tewkesbury
County
Gloucestershire
Constituency
Tewkesbury
Police force
Gloucestershire
64/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 53rd of 294 English council areas — better than 82% of them.

Low crime80
Home affordability58
Affordable rents67
Good schools13
Life expectancy65
Low deprivation86
Employment78
Low council tax73

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

5°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 11° / 5° · 15% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:04Sunset 16:38

9h 34m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

16US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

139 reported road collisions (2025)

46 killed or seriously injured · 201 casualties · 14.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

64 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 60 rated 4–5 ★ (57 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Gotherington (1.2 km)
  • 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Ashchurch for Tewkesbury (5.2 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£323,497 average▲ 0.2% YoY

Across Tewkesbury · to 2026-08

Detached£512,325
Semi-detached£318,622
Terraced£255,299
Flat£143,510

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,093 average monthly rent▲ 13.4% YoY

  • 1 bed £746
  • 2 bed £978
  • 3 bed £1,243

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

7.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.8 times median annual pay (8.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,582 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 168.7p · Asda (9.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Asda (2.6 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

21 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 60 kW
  • Nearest: Ellenborough Park Hotel (4.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches5
  • Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

94,884 residents in Tewkesbury · 229/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,225
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,070
  • Net moves+2,155

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 254 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,341 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 46,250)

A £1,560
B £1,820
C £2,080
D £2,341
E £2,861
F £3,381
G £3,901
H £4,681

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

44 schools · 14,434 pupils

33 primary · 6 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 18 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (78%)

42 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Henley Bank High SchoolGood
  • Winchcombe SchoolGood
  • Chosen Hill School
  • Churchdown School
  • Cleeve School
  • Tewkesbury Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tewkesbury

Care & health services

687 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes200
  • GP practices96
  • Dentists142
  • Homecare agencies182
  • Hospitals & hospices31

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Gloucestershire

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 33 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

190 applications decided

87.4% granted · 166 granted, 24 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Cameron Thomas

Independent

Tewkesbury

Recent votes:

  • AyeOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat / Independent / Green coalition

  • Con 8
  • LD 16
  • Grn 4
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 9

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens3
  • Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,060 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£785 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,365 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

53% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 44,652 certificates

7.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

61% low-carbon electricity

Gas 33% · Wind 29% · Nuclear 26% · Imports 6%

136 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.7 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Gloucestershire): 63.4 women · 63.4 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.6
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

8 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in GL52

  • Sixways Clinic
  • Berkeley Place Surgery
  • Cleevelands Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Tewkesbury:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Gotherington · 0.1 km

    Gotherington is a small village north of Bishops Cleeve in Gloucestershire, England. It is surrounded on the north by the villages of Woolstone and Oxenton, and to the south by Woodmancote and Bishop's Cleeve, a very…

  • Woolstone, Gloucestershire · 0.7 km

    Woolstone is a village and former civil parish now in the parish of Oxenton, in the Tewkesbury district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is about 5 miles (8 km) miles from the town of Cheltenham. The vil…

  • Gotherington railway station · 1.2 km

    Gotherington railway station is a railway station serving the village of Gotherington in Gloucestershire, England. The station is located just to the north of the village.

  • St Michael & All Angels Church, Bishop's Cleeve · 1.8 km

    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.

  • Oxenton · 1.9 km

    Oxenton is a village and civil parish 11 miles (18 km) north east of Gloucester, in the Tewkesbury district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 162. The parish touches Al…

  • Bishops Cleeve railway station · 1.9 km

    Bishop's Cleeve railway station was a railway station that served the village of Bishop's Cleeve in Gloucestershire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Gotherington?
Gotherington is a town in Gloucestershire, England, in the Tewkesbury local authority.
What is the population of Gotherington?
Gotherington has an approximate settlement population of 995.
How deprived is Gotherington?
The Tewkesbury local authority, which includes Gotherington, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.