Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire

Summary

Bamfurlong is a village in Gloucestershire, England,[1][2] between Cheltenham and Gloucester, near Gloucestershire Airport, and divided in two by the M5 motorway. There is no access from one half of Bamfurlong to the other (east to west) other than via Bamfurlong Lane and the motorway bridge.

Bamfurlong
Bamfurlong is located in Gloucestershire
Bamfurlong
Bamfurlong
Location within Gloucestershire
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCheltenham
Postcode districtGL51
PoliceGloucestershire
FireGloucestershire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°53′33″N 2°9′0″W / 51.89250°N 2.15000°W / 51.89250; -2.15000

Entrance to a garden centre in Bamfurlong

Slowest internet in UK edit

A survey in 2018 said homes on Greenmeadows Park in Bamfurlong had the slowest broadband internet access in the UK at 0.14 megabits per second. (Mbps). That was nearly 1,900 times slower than the fastest access, which was in Birmingham.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 163 Cheltenham & Cirencester (Stow-on-the-Wold) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319229125.
  2. ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Streets with UK's slowest and fastest broadband named". BBC News. 12 December 2018.

External links edit

  Media related to Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire at Wikimedia Commons

51°53′33″N 2°9′0″W / 51.89250°N 2.15000°W / 51.89250; -2.15000