Betfred Opening Times Gloucester
Opening times for the Betfred betting shop in Gloucester, at 9 Westgate Street, a minute from the Cross and the Cathedral. The shop shows whether it is open right now and how long you have before it closes today.
Checking times…
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— —Until you share your location, “nearest” means nearest to the town centre: Betfred, 9 Westgate Street (GL1 2NW), a minute from the Cross.
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Betfred Gloucester opening times at a glance
- Betfred shops in Gloucester
- 1 branch
- With published weekly times
- Yes, the full week
- Opening time
- 08:00 Mon–Sat, 09:00 Sunday
- Latest closing
- 22:00 — every day of the week
- Christmas Day
- Both shops closed — required by law
Gloucester is a city of 130,000 with a single trading Betfred, and it does the work of several: 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday, on Westgate Street a minute from the Cross. The 22:00 close holds every day, which matters here because most of the city’s other bookmakers are shorter at the weekend — William Hill typically closes at 20:30 on a Sunday and BOYLE Sports at 18:00. Betfred is a minor player in Gloucester by shop count, though: Coral has six branches and William Hill four.
Betfred on Westgate Street
The city’s only trading Betfred, at 9 Westgate Street. 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, Westgate Street9 Westgate Street, Gloucester GL1 2NW
9 Westgate 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 at the top of Westgate Street where the four gate streets meet, with a Ladbrokes and a Paddy Power on Southgate Street and a Coral on Northgate Street all within about two hundred yards. The register lists the address as 7 Westgate Street and some directories give 9; it is the same shop at GL1 2NW. Distances are straight-line estimates from the Cross. Street View opens at the shop’s position, so you may need to turn the view to face the shopfront.
Gloucester Betfred opening times compared
The full weekly pattern for the shop in one table. Today’s column is highlighted.
With one shop in the town the table is short, but the pattern is worth reading. The closing time never moves: 22:00 on all seven days. The only change anywhere in the week is the Sunday opening, an hour later at 09:00. That still beats the 09:30 or 10:00 starts that several bigger towns settle for, and it means the shop is open before the first racing on every day of the year bar Christmas Day.
| Shop | Mon – Fri | Saturday | Sunday | Find the shop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westgate Street9 Westgate Street, GL1 2NW | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | 09:00–22:00 |
Earliest and latest Betfred shops in Gloucester
Full weekly times are published for the shop, so this section covers every day of its week.
Open earliest
08:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 on a Sunday. That is a solid start but not the earliest in the town: the Ladbrokes and Paddy Power on Southgate Street both open at 08:00 too, while Coral opens at 08:30 and BOYLE Sports at 09:00. Across these pages only Coventry’s city-centre pair open earlier than 08:00 on a weekday, at 07:30.
Open latest
22:00, every single day. There is no weekend drop-off and no shorter Sunday evening. The city-centre bookmakers mostly match it on weekdays, but the Betfred is one of the few that still runs to 22:00 on a Sunday, which makes it the dependable late option in Gloucester at the weekend.
The one to remember, because it is the only one: 9 Westgate Street runs 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday. Fourteen hours a day six days a week, thirteen on a Sunday, and a 22:00 finish every day of the year bar Christmas Day.
Betfred Gloucester Sunday opening times
Sunday at Westgate Street costs you an hour at the start of the day and nothing at the end.
| Shop | Opens | Closes | Find the shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westgate Street9 Westgate Street, GL1 2NW | 09:00 | 22:00 |
9 Westgate Street runs thirteen hours on a Sunday, 09:00 to 22:00 — the same closing time as every other day. Among the towns covered on this site only Brighton, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Croydon and Bournemouth match a 22:00 Sunday finish, and all of those have more than one shop to spread the load. Here a single branch does it, and it outlasts the city’s William Hill and BOYLE Sports shops by two to four hours on a Sunday evening.
Betfred Gloucester 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 the Gloucester shop closes on 25 December by law rather than by choice.
On the other bank holidays, Gloucester 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 the Westgate Street shop. 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 the Gloucester shop to follow its usual pattern for that day.
| Day | Falls on | Next date | What to expect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the shop would lose two hours if it applies.
| Bank holiday | Falls on | Next date | What to expect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Gloucester 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 Gloucester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Gloucester branch sets its own festive times and usually posts them in the window from mid-December. The shop sits at the heart of the historic centre, so its festive hours tend to track the city-centre trading pattern and the Christmas market around the Cathedral. 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 Gloucester (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 9 Westgate Street branch, which is the only trading Betfred in Gloucester. 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.
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 the page measures your distance to the shop, and the directions button plans a route from wherever you are.
Betfred near Gloucester
Gloucester and Cheltenham sit seven miles apart, and the surrounding towns each have their own Betfred branches listed under their own names.
Cheltenham is the closest, with two branches on the High Street — covered on its own page, and both open 08:00 to 22:00 six days a week just like Westgate Street. Beyond that there are branches at Tewkesbury, Stroud and Cinderford in the Forest of Dean, with Worcester and Hereford further north and west. The Gambling Commission register still lists two further Gloucester addresses, at 10 Grosvenor House on Station Road (GL1 1EN) and Silverdale Parade in Hucclecote (GL3 3LA), but neither appears in current trading listings. We have left them out of the count rather than send you to a closed shop; if either is trading, let us know.
The Westgate Street shop is licensed by Gloucester City Council; the Cheltenham branches fall under Cheltenham Borough Council. If you are in the north-east of the city at Longlevens or Churchdown, use the location button above: the directions button routes to Westgate Street, but the Cheltenham shops may be a similar distance and keep the same hours.
Other bookmakers in Gloucester
Gloucester has fifteen betting shops across six brands, and Betfred has just one of them.
Coral is the biggest name with six: 47 Northgate Street in the centre, 131–133 Barton Street, 120 Stroud Road, St John’s Avenue in Churchdown, the Glevum Shopping Centre at Abbeydale and the Tesco Extra at Quedgeley. William Hill has four, on Bristol Road, High Street in Tredworth, Coney Hill Road and at Quedgeley District Centre. Ladbrokes trades at 8–10 Southgate Street and Gloucester Business Park, Paddy Power at 11 Southgate Street and BOYLE Sports at 11 Northgate Street.
Current listings put the Ladbrokes and Paddy Power on Southgate Street at 08:00 to 22:00 on weekdays, the same as the Betfred, with Coral at 08:30 to 22:00. The difference shows at the weekend: the city’s William Hill shops typically close at 20:30 on a Saturday and Sunday and BOYLE Sports at 18:00 on a Sunday, so on a Sunday evening the Westgate Street Betfred is one of the few city-centre options still open. The Ladbrokes on Southgate Street now trades as Spin Powered by Ladbrokes in some listings. Every bookmaker in the city is closed on Christmas Day by law.
About Betfred in Gloucester
| Trading name | Betfred |
|---|---|
| Licensee | Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Limited |
| Head office | Birchwood, Warrington |
| Licensing authority | Gloucester City Council |
| Branches in Gloucester | 1 betting shop |
| With published weekly times | Yes |
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, about 130 miles north. Gloucester is a thin estate for a city of its size: one trading shop, where the register once carried three, and a sixth-place share of the local market behind Coral and William Hill. The surviving branch is well placed, though, at the top of Westgate Street a minute from the Cross, the Cathedral and the Eastgate and Kings Walk shopping centres.
For visitors, 9 Westgate Street is about half a mile from Gloucester railway station and the bus station on Station Road, and a similar distance from Gloucester Quays and the Docks. For Gloucester Rugby at Kingsholm it is the natural stop on the walk back into town, about half a mile south of the ground. Gloucester has no racecourse of its own; Cheltenham’s Prestbury Park is nine miles north-east, and the two Cheltenham Betfred shops are covered on their own page.
Frequently asked questions
- How many Betfred shops are there in Gloucester?
- One is trading: 9 Westgate Street, licensed by Gloucester City Council. The Gambling Commission register still carries two further Gloucester addresses, at Grosvenor House on Station Road and Silverdale Parade in Hucclecote, but neither appears in current branch listings, so we treat them as closed rather than send you to a shuttered door.
- What time does Betfred open in Gloucester?
- 08:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 on a Sunday. It does not bring its opening forward for a Saturday. The Ladbrokes on Southgate Street and the Paddy Power on Southgate Street both open at 08:00 as well, so the three are level first thing.
- What time does Betfred close in Gloucester?
- 22:00, every day of the week including Sunday. That gives it a fourteen-hour day Monday to Saturday and thirteen hours on a Sunday.
- Is the Gloucester Betfred open on a Sunday?
- Yes, 09:00 to 22:00. The closing time is the same as every other day, so Sunday costs you only the hour at the start. By comparison, the William Hill shops in Gloucester typically close at 20:30 on a Sunday and the BOYLE Sports on Northgate Street at 18:00.
- 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.
- Is Betfred in Gloucester open on bank holidays?
- Yes. Good Friday, Easter Monday and the May and August bank holidays are all trading days, usually on normal or slightly shortened hours. Betfred has in past years announced a chain-wide 20:00 close on bank holiday Mondays, which would cut two hours off the Westgate Street shop. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve normally close early, and New Year’s Day opens later.
- Which Betfred is nearest to Kingsholm and Gloucester station?
- 9 Westgate Street is the only Betfred in the city, a minute from the Cross and about half a mile west of Gloucester railway and bus stations. For Gloucester Rugby at Kingsholm it is roughly half a mile south of the ground, and it is the obvious stop on the walk back into the centre after a match.
- How do I find the nearest Betfred to me in Gloucester?
- Tap “Use my current location”. The list re-orders from your position and the directions button routes you to Westgate Street. If you are in Hucclecote, Quedgeley or Abbeydale, the nearest Betfred is still the city-centre shop, although Cheltenham’s two branches are closer to the north-east of the city.