West Country
Gloucestershire
Gloucester District

Gloucester

Gloucester is the county town of in West Country. A major attraction of the city is Gloucester Cathedral, which is the burial place of King Edward II.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Gloucester Cathedral and Gloucester railway station.

Church
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, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity and formerly St Peter's Abbey, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the .

Railway station
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Gloucester, formerly known as Gloucester Central, is a railway station serving the city of Gloucester in England. It is located 114 miles 4 chains west of London Paddington, via .

Museum
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The in Brunswick Road is the main museum in the city of Gloucester, England. It was extensively renovated following a large National Heritage Lottery Fund grant, and reopened on Gloucester Day, 3 September 2011.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Over and Walham.

Suburb
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is a village in , England, 2 mi west of Gloucester. It lies on the A40 road in the parish of , on the west bank of the .

Hamlet
is a hamlet in parish, north of Gloucester, England. It lies on the banks of the and north of the A40 road. It is a suburb of Gloucester, which is to its south.

Gloucester

Latitude
51.8654° or 51° 51′ 55″ north
Longitude
-2.2458° or 2° 14′ 45″ west
Population
122,000
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
IATA airport code
GLO
United Nations Location Code
GB GLO
Open location code
9C3VVQ83+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17857512
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2648404
Wiki­data ID
Q170497
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gloucester” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gloucester”
  • Arabic: “جلوشستر”
  • Arabic: “جلوشيستر”
  • Arabic: “غلوستر”
  • Arabic: “غلوشستر”
  • Arabic: “غلوشيستر”
  • Aragonese: “Gloucester”
  • Armenian: “Գլոստեր”
  • Asturian: “Gloucester”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qloster”
  • Basque: “Gloucester”
  • Belarusian: “Глостэр”
  • Bengali: “গ্লঊচেস্টার”
  • Bengali: “গ্লোসেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Glevum”
  • Breton: “Gloucester”
  • Bulgarian: “Глостър”
  • Catalan: “Glevum”
  • Catalan: “Gloucester”
  • Cebuano: “Gloucester (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Gloucester”
  • Chinese: “Gloucester”
  • Chinese: “告羅士打”
  • Chinese: “格洛斯特”
  • Cornish: “Karlow”
  • Czech: “Gloucester”
  • Danish: “Gloucester”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gloucester”
  • Dutch: “Gloucester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جلوستر”
  • Esperanto: “Gloucester”
  • Estonian: “Gloucester”
  • Finnish: “Gloucester”
  • French: “Glocester”
  • French: “Gloucester”
  • Galician: “Gloucester”
  • German: “Gloucester”
  • Greek: “Γκλόστερ”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્લોસેસ્ટર”
  • Hebrew: “גלוסטר”
  • Hindi: “ग्लॉसेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Gloucester”
  • Icelandic: “Gloucester”
  • Indonesian: “Gloucester”
  • Irish: “Gloucester”
  • Italian: “Gloucester”
  • Japanese: “グロスター”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಲೌಸೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Korean: “글로스터”
  • Kurdish: “Gloucester”
  • Ladin: “Gloucester”
  • Latin: “Claudia”
  • Latin: “Glevum Colonia”
  • Latin: “Glevum”
  • Latin: “Glocestria”
  • Latvian: “Glostera”
  • Lithuanian: “Glosteris”
  • Lithuanian: “Gloucester”
  • Lombard: “Gloucester”
  • Macedonian: “Глостер”
  • Malagasy: “Gloucester”
  • Malay: “Gloucester”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒ꯭ꯂꯧꯀꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯔ”
  • Marathi: “ग्लॉस्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “گلاستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gloucester”
  • Narom: “Glouchêtre”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gloucester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gloucester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gloucester i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gloucester”
  • Norwegian: “Gloucester”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Glocèstre”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gleawceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Глостер”
  • Persian: “گلاستر”
  • Persian: “گلوستر”
  • Piemontese: “Gloucester”
  • Polish: “Gloucester”
  • Portuguese: “Glevum”
  • Portuguese: “Gloucester”
  • Quechua: “Gloucester”
  • Romanian: “Gloucester”
  • Russian: “Глостер”
  • Russian: “Глочестер”
  • Scots: “Gloucester”
  • Serbian: “Gloster”
  • Serbian: “Gloucester”
  • Serbian: “Глостер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gloster”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gloucester”
  • Silesian: “Gloucester”
  • Sinhala: “ග්ලොස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Gloucester”
  • Slovenian: “Gloucester, Anglija”
  • Slovenian: “Gloucester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قلاستر”
  • Spanish: “Gloucester”
  • Swahili: “Gloucester”
  • Swedish: “Gloucester”
  • Tagalog: “Gloucester”
  • Tamil: “கிளௌசிஸ்டர்”
  • Tamil: “குளோசெஸ்டர்”
  • Tamil: “க்ளோஸ்ஸ்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Глостер”
  • Telugu: “గ్లోస్టర్”
  • Thai: “Gloucester”
  • Thai: “กลอสเตอร์”
  • Thai: “เมืองกลอสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Gloucester”
  • Uighur: “Glutséstér”
  • Uighur: “گلۇتسېستېر”
  • Ukrainian: “Глостер”
  • Urdu: “گلوسٹر”
  • Venetian: “Gloucester”
  • Vietnamese: “Gloucester”
  • Volapük: “Gloucester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gloucester”
  • Welsh: “Caerloyw”
  • Welsh: “Gloucester”
  • Western Panjabi: “گلوسسٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “格洛斯特”
  • Yiddish: “גלאסטער”
  • Yue Chinese: “告羅士打”
  • “Gloucester”

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