Hotel · Cleeve Hill
The Rising Sun Hotel
A Greene King Inns hotel, pub and restaurant with 23 bedrooms near the top of Cleeve Hill, with views over five counties from its beer garden.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
A big, straightforward hotel on the hill, with the view from the beer garden as its best feature and Cleeve Common across the road. Run by a brewery chain rather than a family, so expect a pub menu, not a destination kitchen.
- Good: Views over five counties from the beer garden
- Good: Cleeve Common and the Cotswold Way a short walk from the door
- Good: Food served all day, from 11am, every day
- Good: Two dog-friendly bedrooms, and dogs welcome in the pub
- Worth knowing: Dog rooms are limited and must be booked ahead; £10 a night extra
- Worth knowing: Part of the Greene King Inns chain
About
The Rising Sun is a stone-built hotel, pub and restaurant on the B4632 near the top of Cleeve Hill, the highest ground in the Cotswolds, about four miles north-east of Cheltenham. It is run by Greene King Inns, and its beer garden looks out over five counties.
There are 23 bedrooms, traditionally furnished, some with four-poster beds and oak beams, all with their own bathrooms and Wi-Fi. Breakfast is cooked or continental, from 7am on weekdays and 8am at weekends. The bar and restaurant serve food from 11am every day until 9pm, a little later on Fridays and Saturdays and earlier on Sundays.
Two bedrooms take dogs, first come first served, booked in advance through the hotel; Greene King Inns adds £10 a night to a room booked with a dog. The pub is dog friendly. There is a car park, free for staying guests according to Expedia. Cleeve Common is across the road, and the Cleeve Common and Cleeve Cloud walk, along the escarpment and past the hill fort, can be started from the door.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 07:00 to 09:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 07:00 to 09:00 |
| Wednesday | 07:00 to 09:00 |
| Thursday | 07:00 to 09:00 |
| Friday | 07:00 to 09:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
Food served
| Monday | 11:00 to 21:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 to 21:30 |
| Saturday | 11:00 to 21:30 |
| Sunday | 11:00 to 20:30 |
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast
- Rooms
- 23
- Check-in
- From 2pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Views · Real ale · Parking · Wi-Fi · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Events and meetings
- Parking
- Car park at the hotel; free for staying guests, per Expedia. The hotel does not say whether diners pay.
Photos
The four-poster room 
A double room 
The Rising Sun from the road Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
The hotel on the hillside
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Cleeve Hill Hotel 0.2 km away
- Prescott Speed Hill Climb 2.9 km away
- Cheltenham Racecourse 3.5 km away
- Belas Knap Long Barrow 4.2 km away
Sights nearby
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Cleeve Common
Sight · Common or park · The Cotswold Edge
Gloucestershire’s largest common: more than 400 hectares of open limestone grassland on the Cotswold Edge above Cheltenham, with the highest point of the Cotswolds at 330m, an Iron Age hillfort, a Bronze Age cross dyke and views to the Malverns and the Black Mountains.
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Cleeve Hill camp
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · The Cotswold Edge
Cleeve Hill camp is a small Iron Age hillfort of about 500 BC on the cliff top at Cleeve Cloud, above Cheltenham, with two rings of rampart up to 2.5m high and the scarp as its western wall. Cut by quarries and a golf course, it is a scheduled monument on Cleeve Common.
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St James' Chapel, Postlip
Sight · Church · Winchcombe
St James' Chapel is a small Norman chapel of about 1140 beside Postlip Hall below Cleeve Common, with a chevron-carved doorway, used as a farm building for centuries and restored for Catholic worship in 1891. Grade I; seen from the Cotswold Way.
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Tithe barn, Postlip
Sight · Historic building · Winchcombe
The tithe barn at Postlip is an eight-bay stone barn, probably of the fifteenth century, below Cleeve Common near Winchcombe, with raised crucks inside, said to have dried the town's tobacco in the 1600s and home every July to the Cotswold Beer Festival.