Traditional county: Gloucestershire · District / Borough: Cotswold · Region: South West
Explore Upper Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Upper Dowdeswell map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Upper Dowdeswell |
| Traditional County | Gloucestershire |
| District / Borough | Cotswold |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.873756 |
| Longitude | -1.989321 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Upper Dowdeswell remains a quiet collection of honey-coloured stone dwellings held fast against the limestone slopes of the Cotswolds. It lies 4.2 miles east-south-east of Cheltenham (from Cheltenham: bearing 117°T, OS grid SP 008 194), and is situated south-south-west of Whittington village. The land here rises and falls with a deliberate, heavy grace, where the light in late autumn bleaches the fields into a pale, ascetic grey. A mere 0.3 miles to the south-south-west, the earthworks of the Camp At Upper Dowdeswell trace a jagged, ancient perimeter that has long since surrendered its tactical purpose to the grazing of sheep. Further west, the vast, formal grounds of Dowdeswell Court anchor the horizon, their manicured permanence contrasting with the wilder, unkempt thickets that border the local lanes. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the dark, dense canopy of Lineover Wood Sssi draws a sharp, bruised line against the sky, tempering the wind that sweeps across the plateau. Upper Dowdeswell possesses a singular, austere beauty, defined not by grand architecture but by the way the weather scours the grit from its walls. The silence here is physical, broken only by the sharp, metallic click of farm machinery or the distant, rhythmic lowing of cattle in the damp valley bottom.
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Explore Upper Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.873756, -1.989321. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |