It is connected by Segregated Bicycle Paths via Over Bridge and Alney Island to Gloucester.

The wealthy artist and collector Thomas Gambier Parry purchased the Highnam Court estate in 1837.

[5] His son, the composer Hubert Parry, learnt to play the organ in the church.

The church of the Holy Innocents, Highnam was constructed between 1849 and 1851 at the request of Thomas Gambier Parry in memory of his first wife and those of his children who died at an early age.

[6] In Simon Jenkins' book England's Thousand Best Churches, Holy Innocents was rated in the "Top 100" with four stars.

[8] Although unringable, the tower contains the world's heaviest ring of three bells, cast by Charles & George Mears in 1850.