Cleeve Hill

About Cleeve Hill

Cleeve Hill, sometimes called Cleeve Cloud, is the highest ground in both the Cotswolds and Gloucestershire at 330 m. It forms a conspicuous outcrop on the limestone escarpment known as the Cotswold Edge, and the Cotswold Way runs across it.

The summit lies on Cleeve Common, a Site of Special Scientific Interest looked after by the Cleeve Common Trust, formerly the Board of Conservators. The view west is open over Cheltenham and its racecourse, across the Severn and into Wales, with Winchcombe below to the north. Because the southern slopes drain to the River Coln, the hill is the highest point anywhere in the Thames catchment.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 51.920, -2.006. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is fence line 5m W of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

21-Jul-24

Drop measured from

SP366863 · 93 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Long-distance paths past this hill

3 waymarked long-distance routes run within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

The Cleeve Hill group

4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Cleeve Hill as the independent hill at its head.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks