Gordon Terrace. 7 houses, leading off west side of Sherborne Place and facing north. On site now occupied by Bence's paintshop and offices. Listed 1883-4 directory. Goding suggests a connection with a notable visitor, but exact reference unclear.
Gorkite, Alstone. Furlong name, mentioned in 1664 will of Thomas Finch (Sale, p. 19).
Gorze Ditch. See following.
Gosditch, St Paul's. 1834 map. Old furlong name, recorded 1718 (Manor Court Books) as Goss-ditch and 1734 as Gause Ditch (5 acres), part of the North Field (Rawes 6, p. 7). As development progressed, became used for the area immediately adjacent to St Paul's Church. Numerous building certs. for houses here 1826-40; sometimes rendered Gorse or Gorze Ditch. Also appears to have been a watercourse: 'the Gorse Ditch is a covered sewer' (Cresy, 1849). A property on the east side of Malthouse Lane is still called Gosditch House. Said to be corruption of 'goose ditch'; many other examples, locally including Cirencester and Latton (Wilts.); however, early forms of the Cheltenham name more often appear to have -au- or -or sound rather than -oo-.
Gosditch Lane. 'Now called Malthouse Lane' (1926 directory.); name not otherwise noted.
Goss Covert, Charlton Kings. Copse on Lilleybrook estate.
Gother's Buildings. Not located; address of Ruth Bumpass, dyer, in 1820 directory. A Miss Gother was at 23 Winchcombe Street, 1834 (Sawyer, p. 177), and a Mr Cother was active in Cheltenham as a surgeon around 1800.
Gothic Cottage. Shown 1820 map; site now Montpellier Arcade. If general naming practice elsewhere in Cheltenham holds good, this should predate neighbouriing Gothic Villas, of 1811 (see below), but first confirmed ref. to Cottage appears to be 1820 (unexpired lease of 16 years; Chronicle, 23 Nov.). Other, apparently later, Gothic Cottages are listed 1830 at Sandford Field and Portland Street.
Gothic Cottages (1), Norwood Road. On east side between Suffolk Street and St Philip's Street, on what is now overgrown garden (personal communication Mr Ken Pollock). Nos. 1-3 listed in 1936 slum clearance programme (Housing Committee, Oct.).
Gothic Cottages (2), Francis Street. Listed 1876. 4 cottages, later nos. 23-6 Francis Street; demolished by 1953. Site is now grassed area at junction of Hermitage and Francis Streets (personal communication Mr Ken Pollock).
Gothic Place. 1820 map; possibly of 2 houses, in present Montpellier Spa Road, adjacent to Gothic Villas. Gothic Villas first noted when placed for auction (unfinished) in 1811 (Miles/Glos. Journal, 18 July).
Grafton Brewery. Site is now nos. 26-8 Grafton Road (personal communication Mr Ken Pollock).
Grafton Passage,, High Street. North side, between nos. 138 and 140 [now 209-13] , opposite former town clock. Existing by 1839 (building cert.). Insanitary conditions reported here, 1898. Probably linked with a Grafton House (possibly a school) in Lower High Street on 1806-10 map. 1844 directory lists a Grafton Cottage here.
(The) Grafton Road, The Park. Originally Grafton Street; on 1834 map only two houses are shown, either side of junction with present Gratton (sic) Road. Is perhaps the 'row of 4 middle-class' houses 'building on the land between Park Place and the Painswick Road' mentioned in Cheltenham Looker-On building survey, Oct. 1834. Listed as Grafton Road in 1839 directory; and as The Grafton Road on 1864 map. Section west of Painswick Road anonymous until included with eastern section in renaming ordered by Leckhampton Local Board, 1891 (Examiner, 14 Oct.). Grafton may have been an enclosure name; see e.g. map of c. 1820 in Bick 1987, p. 8. 'Graftons' survives on 1835 enclosure award map as an apparent enclosure name for block of land including site of St Philip's church. Sundry building certs. for houses in (part of) Graftons, 1840. See also Argyle Place, Brandon Terrace.
Grafton Street. Thus on 1834 map, 1841 Census, 1855-7 Old Town Survey, but now Grafton Road.
Grafton Terrace. South side of Ashford Road (now nos. 1-11), between Park Place and Painswick Road. Reference in 1830 directory; building certs. for 2 houses here, 1838; all of original 5 listed by 1840 directory. Further house added c. 1991 as part of Park Gate redevelopment of Majestic Hotel site (personal communication Mr Ken Pollock).
Graham Place, off Hester's Way Road. Part of Stage 14 of Hester's Way estate development. Name recommended 1955 (Housing Committee, Aug., no. 563).
Graham Villas, Bayshill. Nos. 1-2 new in 1868 directory; exact location uncertain.
Grange Close. Rejected name for Huntsfield Close, off Cleevelands Drive (Market and Watch Committee, unreported minute, 3 July 1957).
Grange Crescent, Gloucester Road. 17 houses at junction with Alstone Lane; listed 1926.
Grange Orchard, The Reddings. Mobile home site off north side of The Reddings.
Grange Walk, Charlton Kings. Off Horsefair Street. Existing by 1936; after house called The Grange, probably of medieval origins, sold for demolition 1933 (Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin 1, p. 31; 2, p. 22).
Granley Close. Development behind no. 390 Gloucester Road. Name approved 1958 (Market and Watch Committee, Sept.).
Granley Cottages. 9 houses in Granley Road; first listed 1896 directory.