Welcome to Alderton, Gloucestershire

News & Events

New Years Eve 2023 Party, Sun 31st Dec 2023, Alderton Village Hall

St Margaret's Church Christmas Fayre, Sat 2nd Dec 2pm to 4pm, Alderton Village Hall

Alderton Village Store and Post Office have gone contactless!

Alderton Village Store has joined the 21st century & is now accepting contactless card payments. You can now contactless pay using your card or Apple, Google or Samsung Pay. Thank you for supporting your local shop!

Yari is open from 8.30am to 1pm Monday to Saturday with the Post Office open from 9am to 1pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 12.30pm on Saturday. 
Welcome to new residents, wherever you live in the village!

Wherever you live you're welcome! You may have realised that Alderton has some contentious housing developments. This doesn't mean that the people who live or will live in these new homes will not be welcomed.  

To find out what's going on in the village you can read our monthly village newsletter. On this website there's also details of the useful services available in the village and you can find out about the different clubs and organisations. 

We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aldertonglos . We also have WhatsApp groups. ‘Alderton residents’ is for time sensitive information and answers to questions that locals know,’ ‘For Sale/Free’ is our group for selling and exchanging and we have a chat group 'Alderton chatter'. To join these message Mark on 07973 963539 or email mwjmail@gmail.com.

Alderton Village Newsletter 

Alderton Village Newsletter is published monthly and contains everything that you need to know about what's going on in the village. 

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Alderton Planning

Latest appeal decisions

D3 - Land east of St Margarets Drive, Alderton - 48 houses 

The appeal by Rainier Developments and the Gilder family has been allowed and outline planning permission is granted for 48 new houses and the demolition of 16 St Margaret's Drive. You can read and download the Planning Inspector decision by clicking the link below.

Status: Permission granted on appeal.

Current planning applications

G3 - Land South of Dibden Lane, Alderton - 26 houses  

Status: Full planning application

​Hamelin Partnerships have now submitted their application for  26 affordable homes.

B2 - Land Behind 52 to 74 Willow Bank Road - 56 houses - Backhouse Housing and Edward Ware Homes 

Status: Outline Planning 

Backhouse Housing have submitted their application for 56 houses. 

J - Land South of Shakespeare Close and Beckford Road - 35 houses - OBK Land & Planning

Status: No active application

Communication about this from the developer has been restricted to neighbouring properties. We await a planning application.

Alderton Planning

How does planning in
​Alderton work?

Find out how we've got to where we are today and how various bits of the planning system interact. 

Alderton Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) 

Alderton NDP is used in planning to consider where local people want development and what it looks like. 

Planning Application
​​Map 

Alderton's Planning Map shows the status of current and past
​planning applications . 

Our Community in Alderton

Alderton Facebook ​page

Alderton's Facebook page is a quick, easy way to get in touch with a hundreds of people who live in and around Alderton.

​There's updates on news and events ad loads of photos. 

Alderton residents WhatsApp

Alderton residents WhatsApp group is a great way to stay in touch with local residents. Perfect for time-sensitive information and local knowledge we use it to find lost dogs, share recommendations and help each other. It's for Alderton residents only and it's super-friendly.

​Message Mark Watts-Jones on 07973 963 539 or mwjmail@gmail.com to join. 

Oak Hill CofE Primary School 

We're incredibly proud of our small, friendly and inclusive rual school.  Our children describe it as being "like a big family where everyone looks after each other". 

​We're proud to serve our local communities in Alderton, Dumbleton and the surrounding areas.  Our vision is to create an exceptional school environment where every child leaves us confidently by the end of year six prepared to experience life in all its fullness in the world beyond our small rural school.

If you want to find out more, please call  01242 620448

Alderton Parish Council

Latest Parish Council minutes, confirmation of election results and therefore who your Parish Councillors are and last 12 months expenditure here:
https://www.aldertonparishcouncil.org.uk/

​Alderton Services

Gardeners
​Arms

The Gardeners Arms is our traditional 16th Century thatched village freehouse 

Village Store &
​Post Office​

Our Village Shop and Post meets all your local needs specialising in good, local produce and supplies

Oak Hill C of E
​Primary School

Oak Hill School is a Church of England primary school for pupils from 4-11 years

Alderton Acorns
​Pre-School and Toddlers

Alderton Acorns is a Pre-School and Toddler group based in Alderton Village Hall

​About Alderton

Alderton in the 21st century is a thriving community both proud of its history and agricultural heritage and its present day diverse range of community activities. 

Alderton has a Village Shop and Post Office, Oak Hill C of E infant and primary school, Village Hall, Alderton Acorns Toddlers and Pre-School Group, the Gardeners Arms pub, a garage with petrol station, a playing field with playground and changing rooms and allotments.  

It boasts several picturesque listed buildings and a 14th century style Parish Church dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch which contains relics of an earlier Saxon structure.  

The village is a great place to live with a very active community and lots going on. To find out more about what's going on visit us on Facebook.

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Photos

Defibrillator

Alderton's defibrillator can be found at: Old red telephone box, Cambridge Square, Alderton, GL20 8TZ. The telephone box is at the junction of Blacksmiths Road, Beckford Road and School Road and the defibrillator is available 24 hs per day, 365 days per year. 
***To use the defibrillator you must call 999 to get the access code.***

Note: you can’t call 999 from the telephone box as the line isn't connected anymore so you'll need to call from a mobile, go home or ask a local resident. ​ The defibrillator is designed for use by non-experts and will talk you through its use.

Regular Events 

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The Alderton Charity football match has raised over £25,000 in recent years for local and national charities. 
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Each year we hold the Alderton 5k Run to raise money for Alderton Acorns Pre-School for nursery aged children in the village.

More services

Bus timetable

Alderton has buses that ​connect to Winchcombe, Bishops Cleeve, Broadway and Cheltenham provided by Pulhams.

​Up-to-date bus timetables and and bus routes can be found on our Bus page

Milk deliveries

Family run-firm Cotteswold Dairy has a dairy and depot in Tewkesbury supplied by farms from Gloucestershire and ​delivers door-to-door in Alderton and surrounding villages. They deliver milk, cream, butter, eggs and juices, amongst other products.  

Broadband

Alderton is now connected to
the fibre network enabling
superfast broadband with
download speeds of
​up to 76 Mbps. ​

​War Memorial

To find out more about Alderton's War Memorial and the Roll of Honour click here

Find or contact us

Find Us

Alderton is situated on the north west edge of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty within easy reach of the M5. Winchcombe (4 miles), Evesham (8 miles), Tewkesbury (8 miles) and Cheltenham (11 miles) are all within a short drive. 

​Alderton is approximately 100 miles west of London, 45 miles north of Bristol and 45 miles south of Birmingham.

Contact Us

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