best areas in cheltenham

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what is the best areas in and around cheltenham for bringing up children?

Leckhampton
Charlton Kings
Tivoli lovely too
Bishops Cleeve is supposed to be good if you don't mind being out of town (property prices more reasonable too)

Leckhampton has the schools and there are playgrounds, green spaces and cafes. Good all round really.

Yes, theres a bit of a Bermuda triangle this year. We are less than 0.5 miles from Leckhampton School and only just squeaked in

The place we are buying is just round the corner from Leckhampton School but from what I understand, is a bit of a black hole for secondary schools. Of course my LO is only 2 so antying can happen in the next 9 years lol!

I recommend Bishops Cleeve just moved here from Tivoli less than a year ago and love it. I have two children at Bournside after being at St James, Bournside is a good school. My son will be going to school in Cleeve (he has a choice of 3 primary's) and like Leckhampton we have plenty of green spaces, cafes and a great village atmosphere.

Prestbury is nice too!
Although you do need to be careful that you don't stray into Whaddon (some areas there not v nice) sorry if you live there

I'm trying to get us Cheltonians together, maybe for a Christmas drink one evening?
Anyone?

I'd be up for it Dolly, I'm going to bump cherrymonsters thread about a meet-up, to see if we can find more.

I've emailed cheltenhamgal who is our tsarina whatever that might be!!

Maybe the only way is to contact all the people on the list of local MN'ers.

Where shall we go then?

christmas meet up sounds fab ladies x

here it is

Ooh, randomv, new neighbour ... welcome to the 'grey area'! DD is 6 so we have rather less time to fret about secondary schools.

If I were moving to Cheltenham from further afield, but knowing what I do now, I'd probably go for somewhere like Cleeve or Prestbury. Or Gloucester, actually. As it is, I'm rather attached to being (just) walking distance from town, having lived much closer in for some years, and I'm now terribly attached to Leckhampton, even though I live on the furthest outskirts.

I've created an update thread with a list of everyone I think is coming on the 13th Nov here