High Orchard

Immediately south of Baker Street was the terminus of the High Orchard branch railway line.

[4] The area was developed in the 19th century, and from the 1830s was particularly known for its timber yards which benefited from the opening of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal in 1827 and, from 1848, new railway connections.

[7] In 1848, the Midland Railway built a branch line from the city station to High Orchard immediately south of Baker Street, and which ran north through the area's industrial buildings into Gloucester Docks.

[9] There was also a Norwegian Chapel immediately south of the railway line, and a Mission Room on the corner of Llanthony Road and Southgate Street.

[12] West Midland Farmers' Association, an agricultural co-operative, owned buildings at Baker's Quay (1955) and a former maltings (1983) at High Orchard, and in 1983 employed 383 people.

[13] Most of High Orchard was redeveloped as Gloucester Quays shopping centre and associated buildings in the early 2000s.

These include listed buildings Pillar and Lucy Warehouses (c.1838),[14] Sudbrooke House (1840s),[15] Llanthony Provender Mill (1862),[16] and Downings Malthouse (1893).