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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
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 stayTypeRoomsGuest score
1Travelodge Cirencester
Hare Bushes, A429 Burford Road, Cirencester, GL7 5HB, UK
hotel
hotel724.0/5
862 reviews
2 km4 kmTravelodge CirencesterCirencester centre

Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.

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.

HotelTypeOpenedFrom centreWebsite
Bibury Courtcountry house hotel10.4 km
Corinium Court Hotel And Restauranthotel0.2 km
Daneway Inninn8.5 kmthedaneway.pub
Fleece Hotelhotel0.2 km
Fossebridge Inninn10.6 kminnatfossebridge.co.uk
Horse And Groom Inninn14.4 km
Kings Head Hotelhotel0.2 km
Ram Inninn0.2 km
Stratton House Hotelhotel1.5 km
Swan Hotelhotel10.3 km
The Bull Hotelhotel12.9 km
The Nelson Inninn0.4 km
The New Inninn12.6 kmthenewinncoln.co.uk
The Old Brewhousehotel0.5 km
The Old Inninn11.3 km
The Plough Inninn11.6 km
The Royal Oak Inninn0.5 km
The Wheatsheaf Hotelhotel15.3 kmcotswoldswheatsheaf.com
The White Lion Inninn0.2 km
The Wild Duck Inninn4.9 km
Crudwell Courthotel11.5 km
The Old Pack Horse Inninn5.9 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.

0°15°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec100 mm
Average highAverage lowRain per monthComfortable months

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).

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.

large airport

BRS · Bristol Airport

63.9 km from the centreICAO EGGD
large airport

BHX · Birmingham Airport

83.1 km from the centreICAO EGBB
medium airport

SOU · Southampton Airport

95.4 km from the centreICAO EGHI

Good to know

Accessibility, parking and families in Cirencester

How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.

pets allowed
1

of 1 place

a workspace
1

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; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.