Leckhampton is recorded in the doomsday book as a settlement with 26 houses, in The Hundred of Cheltenham and the County of Gloucestershire. The old tramway (now a footpath) that dissects Daisy Bank Gate is steeped in history. Charles Brandon Trye, born 27th August 1757, inherited Leckhampton Court (now owned by Sue Ryder) in 1797 and its estate, which included Leckhampton Hill. 

Trye opened stone quarries on Leckhampton Hill and in order to transport the stone to Gloucester Docks, he built a branch tramway that carried the stone down from the hill in wagons. The tramway was served by a series of inclined plane tramways that used various methods of transporting the stone in carts along the various inclines to the foot of the hill as detailed by the Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archeology in 2001. 

The local quarrymen, some of whom lived in cottages just below Daisy Bank Gate, deliberately left a small stack of the limestone in place, while carefully quarrying around it. This stack, is well known today as Devil's Chimney. 

Incline B2 or "Bottom incline" was decommissioned in 1924 when it was superseded by a new incline that used the "Lightmoor" locomotive to transport stone directly from the quarries to the Leckhampton Railway Station. 

Trye's heir (of the same name) sold the quarries, the rest of Leckhampton Hill, and the tramway system to Henry J Dale. Dale built the infamous Tramway Cottage over a public footpath and fenced off Leckhampton Hill from the public which caused The Leckhampton Riots and an angry mob to demolish the cottage. 

Dale ultimately ceased quarrying and invested in lime kilns, the remains of which are still visible on the west face of Leckhampton Hill, near Devils Chimney. This venture failed and the business was liquidated with the assets sold at auction. The Cheltenham Corporation (now Cheltenham Borough Council) purchased the hill for the benefit of the people, and the land has remained a public space ever since. 

Daisy Bank Gate is so called due to the remains of Bottom Incline B2 now being the footpath connecting it to Daisy Bank Road. At the entrance to Daisy Bank Road, cross Leckhampton Hill onto the footpath directly opposite, bending around to the right, between the remaining wooden uprights of the winding drum, and down what was Incline B2. As you reach the bottom of the incline, you will pass Daisy Bank Gate. 

Here the path becomes a steep sided gulley and opens out to a flat area where the quarrymen's cottages once stood and the stone carts were disconnected from the winding chains, then towed down the tramway on left hand side of Leckhampton Road by horse to Gloucester Docks - hence today the pavement remains wider on the left of the road than the right.