Region: England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Cirencester
Cirencester is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 20,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Cirencester, with about 72 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- BRS64 km · Bristol Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Plugs
- G · 230 V
- Emergency
- 112
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Cirencester
Cirencester ( SY-rən-SEST-ə, occasionally SIS-it-ə) is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the Thames.
Cirencester is the Roman capital of the Cotswolds, Roman Corinium. People are very friendly and it's easy to get in. The town is famous for its polo connections in the Cirencester Great Park, and for the Royal Agricultural College. It's about 90 miles west of London and in 2011 had a population of 19,076.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Cirencester
See
- The Roman Amphitheatre
- Corinium Museum
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- Abbey Grounds
- Kemble railway station
- All Saints' church
Do
- Outdoor Swimming Pool
- New Brewery Arts
- Cotswold Gliding Club
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Cirencester
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Cirencester hotel | 72 | 4.0/5 862 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Where the places to stay in Cirencester are
22 places to stay in this guide with known coordinates, grouped by straight-line distance from the city centre (the point Wikidata gives for Cirencester), nearest first. Distance on foot or by road is longer.
7 places
- The White Lion Inn · 0.2 km
- Kings Head Hotel · 0.2 km
- Corinium Court Hotel And Restaurant · 0.2 km
- Fleece Hotel · 0.2 km
- The Nelson Inn · 0.4 km
- The Royal Oak Inn · 0.5 km
- The Old Brewhouse · 0.5 km
3 places
- The Wild Duck Inn · 4.9 km
- The Old Pack Horse Inn · 5.9 km
- Daneway Inn · 8.5 km
10 places
- Swan Hotel · 10.3 km
- Bibury Court · 10.4 km
- Fossebridge Inn · 10.6 km
- The Old Inn · 11.3 km
- Crudwell Court · 11.5 km
- The Plough Inn · 11.6 km
- The New Inn · 12.6 km
- The Bull Hotel · 12.9 km
- Horse And Groom Inn · 14.4 km
- The Wheatsheaf Hotel · 15.3 km
Where to stay
More hotels in Cirencester
22 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bibury Court | 10.4 km | |
| Corinium Court Hotel And Restaurant | 0.2 km | |
| Daneway Inn | 8.5 km | |
| Fleece Hotel | 0.2 km | |
| Fossebridge Inn | 10.6 km | |
| Horse And Groom Inn | 14.4 km | |
| Kings Head Hotel | 0.2 km | |
| Ram Inn | 0.2 km | |
| Stratton House Hotel | 1.5 km | |
| Swan Hotel | 10.3 km | |
| The Bull Hotel | 12.9 km | |
| The Nelson Inn | 0.4 km | |
| The New Inn | 12.6 km | |
| The Old Brewhouse | 0.5 km | |
| The Old Inn | 11.3 km | |
| The Plough Inn | 11.6 km | |
| The Royal Oak Inn | 0.5 km | |
| The Wheatsheaf Hotel | 15.3 km | |
| The White Lion Inn | 0.2 km | |
| The Wild Duck Inn | 4.9 km | |
| Crudwell Court | 11.5 km | |
| The Old Pack Horse Inn | 5.9 km |
All 23 hotels in Cirencester, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Cirencester
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Cirencester are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; December is the wettest, with about 78 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Cirencester travel calendar 2027: every day with public and school holidays, sunrise and sunset and the typical high and low (also as JSON).
Public holidays in United Kingdom, 2026
Shops and offices may close on these dates.
Getting there
Getting to Cirencester: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Bristol Airport (BRS), about 64 km from the city centre in a straight line; Birmingham Airport (BHX, 83 km) and Southampton Airport (SOU, 95 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
The town is small enough to walk around on foot, and was pedestrianised in 2017.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Cirencester
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Cirencester: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Cirencester?
By published guest score: Travelodge Cirencester (4.0 / 5 · 862 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Cirencester?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Cirencester are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; December is the wettest, with about 78 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Cirencester?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Bristol Airport (BRS), about 64 km from the city centre in a straight line; Birmingham Airport (BHX, 83 km) and Southampton Airport (SOU, 95 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Cirencester?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Cirencester
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; public holidays from python-holidays (MIT); places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.