Betfred Opening Times Cheltenham
Opening times for both Betfred betting shops in Cheltenham, and both are on the High Street: number 85 towards the Promenade and number 228 on the Lower High Street. Both show whether they are open right now and how long you have before they close today.
Checking times…
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Time now in Cheltenham
--:--:-- —Cheltenham Betfred shops open now
— —Last Betfred in Cheltenham closes in
— —Until you share your location, “nearest” means nearest to the town centre: Betfred, 85 High Street (GL50 1DU), towards the Promenade end of the High Street.
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Betfred Cheltenham opening times at a glance
- Betfred shops in Cheltenham
- 2 branches
- With published weekly times
- Both of them
- Earliest weekday opening
- 08:00 — both branches
- Latest closing
- 22:00 — both branches, every day
- Christmas Day
- Both shops closed — required by law
Cheltenham’s two Betfred shops are identical. Both run 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday, and both sit on the High Street about a fifth of a mile apart. There is no variation between them on any day of the week, which makes this the simplest estate on the site to plan around — useful in Festival week, when the town fills up and the hours stay put.
Betfred at 85 High Street
The branch at 85 High Street, towards the Promenade and the Regent Arcade end of town. The row shows today’s times, whether the shop is open now and how long until it closes, with buttons for the map pin, a route from where you are and Street View of the shopfront.
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Betfred, High Street (85)85 High Street, Cheltenham GL50 1DU
85 High Street carries its own published weekly times: 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday. It sits on the eastern stretch of the High Street near the Regent Arcade, with a Ladbrokes on Winchcombe Street a couple of minutes away and a Paddy Power at 122 High Street. Distances are straight-line estimates from the middle of the High Street. Street View opens at the shop’s position, so you may need to turn the view to face the shopfront.
Cheltenham Betfred opening times compared
The full weekly pattern for both branches in one table. Today’s column is highlighted.
There is nothing to separate them. Both branches run 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday, the same fourteen-hour weekday and thirteen-hour Sunday. No other town covered on this site has two shops with identical hours across all seven days. If you know that a Cheltenham Betfred closes at 22:00, that holds every day of the year bar the festive fortnight.
| Shop | Mon – Fri | Saturday | Sunday | Find the shop |
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| High Street (85)85 High Street, GL50 1DU | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | 09:00–22:00 | |
| Lower High Street (228)228 High Street, GL50 3HF | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | 09:00–22:00 |
Earliest and latest Betfred shops in Cheltenham
Full weekly times are published for both branches, so this section covers every shop on the page.
Open earliest
Both branches open at 08:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 on a Sunday. Neither brings its opening forward for a Saturday, and nothing in Cheltenham opens before 08:00 on any day. That 08:00 start is worth knowing in Festival week: the first race is usually early afternoon, so the shops are open a good five hours before the action starts.
Open latest
Both branches close at 22:00, every day of the week, Sunday included. That makes Cheltenham unusual: in most towns covered here at least one shop closes at 20:00 or 21:00, and several have no 22:00 option at all on a Sunday. Here you have two, a fifth of a mile apart on the same street.
Nothing to choose between them: both 85 and 228 High Street run 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday. Pick whichever end of the High Street you are on — 85 for the Promenade and Regent Arcade, 228 for the Lower High Street and the bus routes north.
Betfred Cheltenham Sunday opening times
Sunday in Cheltenham barely differs from any other day. Both shops open an hour later, at 09:00, and both still close at 22:00.
| Shop | Opens | Closes | Find the shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Street (85)85 High Street, GL50 1DU | 09:00 | 22:00 | |
| Lower High Street (228)228 High Street, GL50 3HF | 09:00 | 22:00 |
Both shops run thirteen hours on a Sunday, 09:00 to 22:00, and both are open right through the evening kick-offs. There is no Sunday evening gap in Cheltenham at all — something only Brighton, Bournemouth and Chelmsford match among the towns covered here.
Betfred Cheltenham bank holiday opening times
Betting shops in England can trade on every bank holiday bar one. Premises licences issued under the Gambling Act 2005 carry a condition that gambling facilities cannot be provided on Christmas Day, so both Cheltenham branches close on 25 December by law rather than by choice.
On the other bank holidays, Cheltenham branches usually run either their normal times for that day of the week or a slightly shorter day. Betfred has in past years announced a chain-wide 20:00 close on bank holiday Mondays, which would cut two hours off both branches. Dates in the tables below update automatically.
Easter opening times
Betting shops have been allowed to open on Good Friday since the Gambling Act 2005 came into force, and there is no Easter Sunday restriction in Great Britain. Across the Easter weekend, expect both Cheltenham branches to follow their usual pattern for that day.
| Day | Falls on | Next date | What to expect |
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| Good Friday | Friday before Easter Sunday | — | Normal weekday times |
| Easter Saturday | Saturday before Easter Sunday | — | Normal Saturday times |
| Easter Sunday | First Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March | — | Normal Sunday times |
| Easter Monday | Day after Easter Sunday | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
May and August bank holidays
The early May, spring and summer bank holidays all fall on a Monday. Check the window card or the Betfred shop finder the week before, and both branches would lose two hours if it applies.
| Bank holiday | Falls on | Next date | What to expect |
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| Early May bank holiday | First Monday in May | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
| Spring bank holiday | Last Monday in May | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
| Summer bank holiday | Last Monday in August | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
Christmas and New Year opening times
The festive fortnight is the only stretch of the year when Cheltenham times move far from the weekly pattern. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve normally finish early, Boxing Day — the biggest racing day of the winter — runs close to normal, and New Year’s Day starts later.
| Day | Date | Next date | Usual pattern in Cheltenham |
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| Christmas Eve | 24 December | — | Normal opening, early close around 18:00 |
| Christmas Day | 25 December | — | Closed all day, both shops |
| Boxing Day | 26 December | — | Normal opening, close around 20:00 |
| Substitute bank holiday | When 25 or 26 December falls on a weekend | — | Normal times for that day |
| New Year’s Eve | 31 December | — | Normal opening, early close around 18:00 |
| New Year’s Day | 1 January | — | Later start around 10:00, close around 20:00 |
Each Cheltenham branch sets its own festive times and usually posts them in the window from mid-December. Both sit on the High Street, so their festive hours tend to track the town centre’s trading pattern. The live countdowns on this page follow the standard weekly times and the Christmas Day closure only, so check the window card before travelling on 24, 26 or 31 December or 1 January.
How the live opening times work
Everything live on this page reads the clock in Cheltenham (UK time), not the clock on your device, and compares it against each shop’s published times. That keeps the status right even if you are checking from abroad.
The panel at the top
The top panel covers the branch at 85 High Street. It tells you whether it is open right now and how long until it closes. After the last close it switches to counting down to opening the next morning. Since both Cheltenham shops keep identical hours, the panel is accurate for either.
The shop rows
Open now means the shop is inside its published times and the countdown shows how long is left. Closed shows when it opens next. Counters stop taking cash bets a few minutes before closing so staff can settle slips, so if you are collecting winnings, aim to arrive ten minutes before the time shown.
Map, directions and Street View
Each row has three buttons. Map drops a pin on the shop, Directions plans a route from wherever you are, and Street View shows the street around the shop so you can spot the frontage before you set off. Tap “Use my current location” and both lists re-order themselves, and the directions button points to whichever of the two branches is closer to you.
Betfred on the Lower High Street
The second Cheltenham branch sits at 228 High Street, about a fifth of a mile west along the Lower High Street. It publishes full weekly times, so its live status is as exact as the 85 High Street shop’s.
Betfred in the Lower High Street 1 shop
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Betfred, Lower High Street (228)228 High Street, Lower High Street, Cheltenham GL50 3HF
228 High Street runs exactly the same hours as its neighbour: 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday. It is the shop locals call the bottom shop, at the Lower High Street end where the street turns towards Tewkesbury Road, and there is a Ladbrokes two doors along at number 256 — about as tight as bookmaker competition gets. It is marginally the closer of the two to the Racecourse side of town.
Betfred near Cheltenham
Cheltenham and Gloucester sit seven miles apart, and the surrounding Gloucestershire towns each have their own Betfred branches listed under their own names.
Gloucester is the nearest, about seven miles south-west, with branches on Westgate Street in the centre and at Hucclecote. Tewkesbury’s High Street shop is eight miles north, and there are further branches at Stroud, Cirencester and Cinderford in the Forest of Dean. Cheltenham Racecourse at Prestbury Park is a mile and a half north of the High Street, well inside the town.
Both Cheltenham shops are licensed by Cheltenham Borough Council. The Gloucester branches fall under Gloucester City Council and Tewkesbury under Tewkesbury Borough Council, so they are separate in both postal and licensing terms. If you are heading for Gloucester or Tewkesbury rather than Cheltenham itself, use the location button above: the directions button always routes to the closer of the two Cheltenham branches, which may not be the nearest Betfred overall.
Other bookmakers in Cheltenham
For a town of 116,000 Cheltenham has a crowded betting market, and Ladbrokes rather than Betfred is the biggest name in it.
Ladbrokes has three: 256 High Street, two doors from the Betfred at 228, plus Winchcombe Street and Rotunda Terrace on Montpellier Street. William Hill trades at 33–35 Winchcombe Street and 96 Tewkesbury Road, Paddy Power at 122 High Street between the two Betfred shops, and Coral at 158 Bath Road towards Leckhampton.
We are still confirming full weekly times branch by branch for the non-Betfred shops in Cheltenham, so they are not listed with live status on this page yet. One comparison is already clear though: the Ladbrokes at 256 High Street opens at 09:00 on weekdays and 10:00 on a Sunday, an hour later than the Betfred two doors away at both ends of the week, so the Betfred is the earlier option on the Lower High Street. Every bookmaker in the town is closed on Christmas Day by law.
About Betfred in Cheltenham
| Trading name | Betfred |
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| Licensee | Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Limited |
| Head office | Birchwood, Warrington |
| Licensing authority | Cheltenham Borough Council |
| Branches in Cheltenham | 2 betting shops |
| With published weekly times | Both of them |
Betfred began in Salford in 1967, when brothers Fred and Peter Done opened their first betting shop, and it runs its estate from Birchwood in Warrington. Cheltenham is a two-shop town, and both sit on the same street a fifth of a mile apart — 85 High Street towards the Promenade and 228 on the Lower High Street. There are no suburban branches at all, which is why both keep full town-centre hours: 08:00 to 22:00 six days a week. For the town that gives its name to the Gold Cup, it is a smaller estate than you might expect.
For racegoers, neither shop is at the course: Prestbury Park is a mile and a half north of the High Street, so if you want a shop bet before the off, place it in town rather than counting on a walk from the enclosures. 85 High Street is closest to the Promenade and the Regent Arcade, with Cheltenham Spa station about a mile west. 228 is the better side of town for the bus routes and the racecourse shuttle. In Festival week both are open from 08:00, hours before the first race.
Frequently asked questions
- How many Betfred shops are there in Cheltenham?
- Two, and both are on the High Street: number 85 towards the Promenade end and number 228 on the Lower High Street, about a fifth of a mile apart. Both are licensed by Cheltenham Borough Council and both publish full weekly times. Gloucester and Tewkesbury have their own branches listed under their own names.
- What time does Betfred open in Cheltenham?
- Both branches open at 08:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 on a Sunday. Neither brings its opening time forward for a Saturday, and neither opens before 08:00 on any day — including during the Cheltenham Festival, when shops stay on their published hours.
- What time does Betfred close in Cheltenham?
- Both close at 22:00, every day of the week including Sunday. Cheltenham is one of the few places covered on this site where every Betfred trades until 22:00 seven days a week.
- Which Betfred in Cheltenham is open latest on a Sunday?
- Neither is later than the other: both run 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday, thirteen hours each. The two shops keep identical hours all week, so the choice comes down to which end of the High Street you are on.
- Is Betfred open on Christmas Day?
- No. Every betting shop in Great Britain is closed on Christmas Day. It is a condition attached to premises licences under the Gambling Act 2005, not a company decision.
- Are Betfred shops in Cheltenham open during the Cheltenham Festival?
- Yes, and Festival week in March is the busiest trading week of the year in the town. Both shops keep their published 08:00 to 22:00 hours, so the queues rather than the hours are the thing to plan around — aim for late morning or mid-afternoon rather than the half hour before a big race. Gold Cup day is the peak.
- Which Betfred is nearest to Cheltenham Racecourse?
- Neither is close. Prestbury Park is about a mile and a half north of the High Street, and both Betfred shops are in the town centre. The 228 High Street branch is marginally nearer the Racecourse end of town, and both are a short walk from the bus routes and the racecourse shuttle.
- How do I find the nearest Betfred to me in Cheltenham?
- Tap “Use my current location”. Both lists on this page then re-order nearest-first, and the directions button at the top routes you to the closer of the two Cheltenham Betfred shops.