Official Name: | Bamfurlong |
Country: | England |
Shire County: | Gloucestershire |
Region: | South West England |
Coordinates: | 51.8925°N -2.15°W |
Constituency Westminster: | Tewkesbury |
Shire District: | Tewkesbury |
Postcode District: | GL51 |
Postcode Area: | GL |
Post Town: | Cheltenham |
Bamfurlong is a village in Gloucestershire, England,[1] [2] between Cheltenham and Gloucester, near Gloucestershire Airport, and divided in two by the M5 motorway. There is no access from one half of Bamfurlong to the other (east to west) other than via Bamfurlong Lane and the motorway bridge.
A survey in 2018 said homes on Greenmeadows Park in Bamfurlong had the slowest broadband internet access in the UK at 0.14 megabits per second. (Mbps). That was nearly 1,900 times slower than the fastest access, which was in Birmingham.[3]