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Cheltenham Attractions
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Beechwood Shopping Centre has around 28 shops, including two department stores and a range of cafes and restaurants. A more unusual feature is the indoor garden. Packed with large architectural...
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Situated a short distance from Cheltenham amongst some charming Gloucestershire countryside, Belas Knap Long Barrow represents a particularly fine exampe of a Neolithic tomb, dated around 2500 BC. The...
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This Italianate church was designed by Henry Dangerfield and completed in 1855 with money raised by the Baptist congregation that was formed over ten years earlier. The history of Baptists...
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This ornate red-brick building is actually an early electricity station. Based on the Strozzi Palace in Florence, it was part of Cheltenham's first electricity grid, which was created in 1895....
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In the heart of the beautiful Cotwolds, Chedworth represents one of Britain’s largest Romano-British villas. This is a stately home with a history that dates back over 1700 years....
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Extended in 1989, Cheltenham’s museum and art gallery houses an impressive permanent collection of ceramics, jewellery, fine art, furniture and local history exhibits as well as an Arts and Crafts...
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Cheltenham was at forefront of Victorian education in Britain and The Cheltenham Ladies' College led the way in the education of girls. Its early success forced it to move to...
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Cheltenham Promenade is the venue for the town's popular markets. Award-winning Farmers' Markets are held on the second and last Friday of every Month. All goods are produced or grown...
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Cheltenham’s Edwardian Baroque Town Hall was built entirely for entertainment and it's still used for that purpose today. Events held here include concerts, dinners, balls, exhibitions, festivals, flower shows, recitals...
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St Gregory's Church was begun in 1854 and designed by the well-known architect, Charles Hanson. It took 23 years to complete, not being consecrated until 1877. Highlights include John Hardman's...
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These landscaped lawns are the centrepiece to Clarence Square, a Georgian square in the Pittville Estate, just north of Cheltenham town centre. This combination of gardens and quality housing is...
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At 330 metres above sea level, Cleeve Common is the highest point in the Cotswolds. Countless footpaths crisscross its 1000 acres and breathtaking views extend to the Malvern Hills and,...
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Golf has been played on Cleeve HIll since 1891 and Cleeve Hill Golf Course is the latest to exploit its natural beauty, magnificent views and varied terrain. This 18-hole par-72...
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Established in 1971, the Cotswold Farm Park was the first-ever Rare Breeds Farm to open to the public. With over 50 flocks and herds of our most fascinating British breeds...
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Cox’s Meadow is part of Cheltenham’s Flood Alleviation Scheme. The town is vulnerable to floods caused by run-off from thunderstorms high on the Cotswold scarp. This flood plain helps to...
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Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre is worth visiting not only for its performances, which include opera, drama, dance, ballet, comedy, pantomime and music, but also for its fine Rococo interior. Theatre architect,...
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Discover the childhood home of Gustav Holst, composer of ‘The Planets’. See his piano, personal family items and listen to his music. Also see a working Victorian House including kitchen,...
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The gardens were originally planted out for the exclusive use of the subscribers to the Sherborne Spa. The spa was constructed in 1818 on the site now occupied by the...
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John Dower house is one of Cheltenham's most impressive buildings. Ashlar-faced, four stories high, with a central Ionic portico, it was built in 1820 as a hotel. The coat of...
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Landsdown Estate is one of Britain's first provincial garden suburbs. In 1824, JP Papworth planned a suburb of high-quality housing, built around gardens and parks. After a faltering start, caused...
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Martin's Gallery exhibits work from around the world and in a variety of formats. They include sculptures in stone, glass, bronze and ceramic as well as watercolours and oil paintings,...
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Cheltenham has many unique shops and arcades, some dating from its heyday as a fashionable spa town. This arcade is one of them and it's among the best preserved in...
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The first Montpellier Spa was nothing more than a small wooden pavilion, hastily constructed in 1809 by the entrepreneur William Thompson to take advantage of Cheltenham Spa’s growing popularity. Popularity...
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The Regency village of Montpellier in Cheltenham is as chic and fashionable today as it was 150 years ago, with its specialist shops, fine restaurants, cafés, gardens and elegant buildings....
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Cheltenham’s most elegant parade of shops was built between 1840 and 1860. The shops are separated by 32 caryatids or stone pillars carved into female statues, based on similar figures...
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Begun in 1823 but probably not completed until 1835, Cheltenham’s municipal offices are regarded by many as the finest regency buildings not only in Cheltenham but also in the country....
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This fountain stands at the South end of Cheltenham’s magnificent Municipal Offices. It was carved out of Portland stone in 1892-2 by Boulton & Sons, a local company, who also...
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Cheltenham’s largest park was completed in 1827 as the backdrop for Joseph Pitt’s magnificent new Pittville Pump Room. Wyman’s Brook was dammed to create the large lake. Beautiful stone bridges...
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Cheltenham’s most ambitions Regency building was completed in 1830 for the then vast sum of £40,000, for Joseph Pitt, when Cheltenham’s golden age as a fashionable spa town was already...
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Pittville Studios Gallery is the main art exhibition space used by the faculty of media and art at the University of Gloucester. Throughout the year, the space is used...
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Cheltenham's amateur theatre has been putting on productions for over sixty years. Founded in 1945, the building was converted from Henry Thompson's Montpellier Baths, which first opened in 1806. Today,...
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This is the largest shopping centre in Cheltenham, with its two floors, five restaurants, 70 shops and 500 parking spaces. Many well-known global brands are here alongside a few smaller...
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One of the earliest and best of Cheltenham's Regency terraces, Royal Crescent was built between 1805 and 1825 by Charles Harcourt, an architect from Bath, for Joseph Pitt, who also...
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Sandford Park is one of Cheltenham's hidden jewels. Stretching from the end of the High Street to the River Chelt and beyond, it has ornamental borders, Italian gardens, pools, cascades,...
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Sandford Parks Lido's heated outdoor pools are a mecca for swimmers on sunny days. Facilities include a heated 50-metre pool with lanes for training, a heated children's pool with a...
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St Mary’s Parish Church, the only medieval building in Cheltenham, is also noteworthy for its outstanding windows, especially the beautiful rose window on the east side of the north transept....
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Cheltenham's newest leisure and retail centre is home to a fitness centre, an 11-screen cinema, shops, restaurants and bars. Converted from an old maltings, The Brewery retains the façade and...
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The Courtyard’s glass and iron free-standing pavilion makes for an unusual shopping experience in one of the most stylish parts of Cheltenham. Its sunken central piazza, with its cafés and...
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Lying within the Pittville garden estate, Wellington Square’s houses are built around attractive landscaped gardens. Here are some of the earliest and the latest 19th century buildings in Cheltenham. The...
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One of Cheltenham's less well-known public spaces, this award-winning garden is minutes from the town centre. A long path leads from the high street to an imposing classical stone chapel....
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Weighing in at three tons and boasting a mechanism 14 metres long, the Wishing Fish Clock is thought to be the tallest mechanical clock in the world. It's also very...
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Latest Cheltenham Review
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Cheltenham is where history meets cutting edge with the combination, but with an edge of artistic flair about it too.
The town always appears to put on its best show with the pale coloured Regency style buildings looking immaculate and they rather out-do Bath in many ways, even if the latter is more famous.
The Cheltenham Gold Cup is possibly what most people know about this town, but those who truly want to get under the skin need to walk around the streets and look-up as there are some surprising little slightly hidden away pieces of architecture to be found.
In terms of cutting edge - this is the home to several technology companies, and we've also got the highly secretive GCHQ, albeit a building that is a little too well known to be much of a secret.
All in all - Cheltenham just doesn't seem to have a bad day and even the more modern buildings such as the Cavendish House which is certainly not Regency, do seem to fit in rather well.
- John Broughton
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