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  • Opening Times & Directions

    Entry is free

    Entry is FREE but we encourage donations to help support and continue improvements to our volunteer-led museum. Without your donations the museum would not exist.

    Opening Times

    Museum

    The museum is open from 10 am until 4 pm every day except Mondays.

    Museum shop

    Our excellent museum shop, The Undercroft, sells a range of high quality gifts, walking gear and books on the local area. Ice cream and old fashioned sweets are also available. The Undercroft is open from 1000-1600 every day except Mondays.

    How To Get There

    By Car / on foot

    Follow the B4632 from Cheltenham or from Broadway:  For your Satnav use postcode  GL54 5LJ. We are right in the centre of Winchcombe, at the T-junction where North Street meets Hailes Street. To see our precise location using What Three Words, click here.

    Two car parks are within a five minute walk of the museum. These are in Back Lane (GL54 5PZ) and Bull Lane (GL54 5HX). The Back Lane car park costs just £1 for all-day parking. Bull Lane is closer to the museum than Back Lane.

    By Train

    The nearest mainline train station is Cheltenham Spa.  The taxi journey to Winchcombe takes about 25 minutes. Alternatively, a frequent bus service runs from the station to the centre of Cheltenham for a bus to Winchcombe. The volunteer-run Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway runs between Broadway and Cheltenham Racecourse and has a station at Greet, approximately a mile from Winchcombe Museum. There is a pleasant walk from the station, some of which is along a path by the side of the river Isbourne.

    By Bus

    The Stagecoach-run Service W runs hourly from Cheltenham to Winchcombe.  The bus can be boarded at Pittville Street (outside Primark) in the centre of Cheltenham.  Alight from the bus at the War Memorial in the centre of Winchcombe.

    Accessibility

    The museum has step-free access to the ground floor and a lift to the two upstairs rooms.