Farm Lane, Leckhampton, off Shurdington Road. Continues Crippetts Road down to Kidnapper's Lane. Named thus by 1959.
Farmfield Lane, Warden Hill. Listed 1959, but apparently superseded by following.
Farmfield Road, Warden Hill. Existing under this name by 1959. Generally follows line of track to Warden Hill farm shown on 1884 map.
Farmington Road, Benhall. Part of Geo. Wimpey & Co. development of Benhall Farm estate. Name approved 1957 (Market and Watch Committee, Apr, no. 1588). Cotswold village theme.
Fauconberg Road Opened up in 1874, following acceptance of proposal from Gloucester Banking Co. to make a new road from the Promenade and Old Well Lane to Bays Hill (Streets and Highways Committee, 3 Dec. 1873). It was seen as offering 'great convenience', and improved property values; after complaints about slow progress, work on the new street was near completion in April 1874 (Cheltenham Looker-On, 18 Apr.). Named by the time orders were made for lamps to be set up, 1875 (Streets and Highways Committee, 30 Nov.). In 1780-1, Skillicorne erected for Lord Fauconberg the house on Bayshill at which George III was to stay in 1788 (Griffith, p. 11; Blake & Beacham, p. 59); the building was at various times called Fauconberg Hall, Fauconberg Lodge and Bayshill Lodge. A second house named Fauconberg Lodge is in St George's Road (at junction with St George's Place).
Fauconberg Terrace, Bayshill Road. 6 houses between Royal Well Terrace and Royal Parade. Designed and erected in 1860s by Samuel Onley, on part of the Royal Old Wells estate (Beacham). First listed in 1866 directory. Demolished 1934 to make way for new buildings at Ladies' College.
Fauconberg Villas, Bayshill Road. By Samuel Onley; described 1861 as 'recently built' (Cheltenham Looker-On, 20 July). Nos. 1-2 listed first in 1862 directory, no. 3 listed by 1867.
Fawley Drive, Prestbury, Noverton Park. Listed by 1959. One of a cluster of south coast names.
Fern Villas. 2 houses in All Saints Terrace; first listed 1874.
Fernbank. 2 houses in Pittville Circus Road, near Hewlett Road end. First noted 1870 directory.
Ferndale Terrace. 4 houses in St Luke's Place off St Luke's Road; existing by 1911.
Ferndale Villas. 2 houses in King's Road (now nos. 16-8); first noted 1881 Census.
Ferndales Close, Up Hatherley. Off Caernarvon Road; part of Davallia development, by Bryant Homes. Named in 1989 by parish council following generally floral theme adopted for this stage of development (Up Hatherley Parish Council).
Fernleigh Crescent, Up Hatherley. Off Long Mynd Avenue; part of 1950s development; name chosen by parish council (Up Hatherley Parish Council).
Ferns Cottage, exact location uncertain. Residence in 1815 of Capt. Brisac; reached by footpath leading from North Place on the 'far side of the Carriage Road', i.e. north of St Margaret's Road (Paving Commissioners' Minutes, 6 Sept.). May be the same as the Fern Cottage marked on 1883 OS map 1:500 facing north onto what is now Swindon Road, where Henrietta Street car park now has its northern exit.
Ferryman's Cottage, cast side of Upper Bath Road. See Hermitage Street.
Fiddler's Green. 1830 map; 1884 map (as also Fiddler's Green Farm). Name first noted in 1430, as Fythelers; from a Middle English byname, i.e. 'fiddler' (Place Names of Gloucestershire). A 1550s tenant in Arle, William Fidler (Hart, p. 35), may well have been of the same family.
Fiddler's Green Lane, north from Golden Valley roundabout. Named as Fidler's Green Road in 1869 (Examiner, 24 Feb.), and shown in a court case of 1870 to have been a public road at least 60 years previously (Examiner, 6 Apr.). Present name by 1911. Later development (Elm Farm) by Bryant Homes (agreement of Oct. 1973; adopted Sept. 1988). Fidler's is the usual spelling in older references.
Field Lodge. Alternative name of Byrche's Farm, which see. Listed thus 1820 (James Arkell, farmer).
Field Place. Unlocated; lamp to be sited there, 1823 (Paving Commissioners' Minutes, 3 Dec.).
Field Street, Fairview. Occasional name for Victoria Place, which see.
Field View or Field View Cottages, Whaddon Lane. Earlier listed under Prestbury Road. 7 small cottages erected c. 1826 by the Hon. Katherine Monson on an 8-acre plot known as The Whaddons bought by her in 1824 (personal communication Dr Steven Blake). Shown opposite Fairfield Farm, on 1855-7 Old Town Survey. Listed in 1935 slum clearance programme no. 2 (Housing Committee, Feb.).
The Fields, Leckhampton. Off Kidnappers Lane (includes Cummings Cottages), listed 1936.Name recalls open fields from which this area of paddocks, orchards and market gardens descended, particularly Middle Field which covered whole area between Hatherley Brook and Moorend Stream, extending from Lott Meadow (which see) down to the junction of the two brooks off Merestones Drive (personal communication Mr Ken Pollock). ;
Finch's Yard. Unlocated; cited in Cresy 1849 as an instance of bad ventilation and filth.