How to choose a dog groomer in Cheltenham and the north Cotswolds
Dog grooming is unregulated in the UK, so the checking is on you. This directory covers 23 groomers across seven areas of Cheltenham and the north Cotswolds: Cheltenham centre and Montpellier (GL50), Cheltenham west and Hesters Way (GL51), Prestbury and Bishops Cleeve (GL52), Charlton Kings and Leckhampton (GL53), Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold (GL54), Chipping Campden (GL55), and Moreton-in-Marsh (GL56). Businesses are grouped by postcode district rather than by the town name they use themselves, which matters most around Charlton Kings, covered below.
Check how well the business is documented
Of the 23 businesses listed, six were confirmed from a working website plus at least one other independent source (marked high confidence): Dogwood Cheltenham Pet Grooming Spa, Murphy's Dog Grooming, The Stylish Hound, Wags and Tails Dog Grooming, Passion Grooms and Empathy Dog Grooming. Thirteen are medium confidence, usually meaning the details come from a directory listing, a Facebook page, or a phone number confirmed independently rather than the business's own working site. Four are low confidence: Short Bark and Sides, K9 Holidays & Grooming, The Dog Groomer (Cheltenham) and Emma's Dog Grooming. Each of these carries a plain note in its listing that the details are from search results only and should be confirmed by phone before booking.
Websites worth knowing don't work
Two businesses have a website address on record that loaded but returned no readable content during research: Hawkswood Hounds Dog Grooming Studio and K9 Holidays & Grooming. Their listings here leave out the broken link rather than send you to a dead page; call instead.
Two names that turned out to belong elsewhere
Two businesses researched under a Cheltenham address turned out, on closer checking, to be the same business already listed in this network's Gloucester directory, so they aren't duplicated here. The Dusty Dog, on Draycot Road, is marked permanently closed on its Google Business Profile; Doggylicious Cheltenham's own Google listing confirms it has since relocated to Churchdown, in Gloucester, despite directory pages still showing its old Camberwell Road address. Both are listed, where accurate, on the Gloucester pages of this site rather than here.
Charlton Kings sits on two postcode districts
Charlton Kings straddles both GL52 and GL53. Murphy's Dog Grooming and Pegasus House, the veterinary practice with an on-site grooming parlour, both give Charlton Kings addresses but carry GL52 postcodes, so on this site they're grouped under Prestbury and Bishops Cleeve rather than Charlton Kings and Leckhampton, to keep grouping consistent by postcode district throughout. That leaves the Charlton Kings and Leckhampton area itself thinner than Charlton Kings' actual groomer count would suggest, with only Shaggy Chic Dog Grooming and K Nine Dog Studio listed there; if you're in Charlton Kings itself, it's worth checking the Prestbury and Bishops Cleeve area too.
Vet-practice grooming parlours
Two businesses here are veterinary practices with an on-site grooming parlour rather than groom-only salons: Pegasus House in Charlton Kings and Stow Vets Dog Grooming at Stow Veterinary Centre. Both are kept in this directory because the grooming service is real and locally based, but ask when you call whether you're booking with a vet-attached parlour or a dedicated grooming team, since appointment systems can differ from a standalone salon.
Home-based and one-to-one setups
Several groomers here work from home rather than a shopfront: Prestbury Paws (a converted summerhouse salon in Prestbury), Regency Grooming (Battledown, one dog at a time), Emma's Dog Grooming (Bishops Cleeve) and Empathy Dog Grooming (Stretton-on-Fosse). Clean4paws is the only mobile-only groomer in this directory, covering Bourton-on-the-Water, Stow-on-the-Wold, Moreton-in-Marsh and nearby villages, and it noted on its own site that it was fully booked for 2026 at the time of checking, so ask about availability before you plan around it.
Reviews
14 of the 21 groomers listed here show a Google rating, taken from the business's own Google profile and linked from the listing; the others have no rating from a source this directory can link to. Several own sites and directories quote Google review scores, but none was verified on a fetched Google Maps page, Trustpilot, Fresha, Booksy or Yelp listing during research, so per this network's rule against unverified ratings, nothing is shown. Ask to see recent work, a reference, or photos of previous grooms instead of relying on a figure you can't check yourself.
Where they are, and where they're thin
Coverage is heaviest in Cheltenham west and Hesters Way (6), followed by Prestbury and Bishops Cleeve (5) and Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold (4). Cheltenham centre and Montpellier has 3, Charlton Kings and Leckhampton and Moreton-in-Marsh have 2 each, and Chipping Campden is the thinnest area on this site with just one confirmed groomer, Wags and Tails Dog Grooming, based just outside the town in Mickleton.