Cheltenham
Distance from Broadway - 21 miles
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Pittville Pump Room |
The Queens Hotel |
Cheltenham is a beautiful, regency, spa town located in the heart of The
Cotswolds and world famous for its horse racing. Cheltenham’s heyday as
one of England’s leading spas lasted from about 1790 to 1840 and it was
this period that saw most of the architectural development that survives today.
The signature surviving architectural example of this period is undoubtedly the
colonnaded and domed Pittville Pump Room. During the Regency period, Joesph
Pitt's Pump Room was the largest and most lavish site where the renowned spa
waters could be taken.
Cheltenham has a fine choice of stylish shops, restaurants, promenades and
pretty gardens as well and its festivals of horse racing, music and literature.
An interesting place to visit is Holst's Birthplace Museum, the
Regency terrace house where Gustav Holst, composer of The Planets was born in
1874. The story of the man and his music is told alongside a fascinating
display of personal belongings including his piano. The museum is also a fine
period house showing the upstairs downstairs way of life in times past,
including a working Victorian kitchen and laundry, elegant Regency drawing room
and charming Edwardian nursery.
Cheltenham Racecourse - The Festival 2010 - 16th to 19th March
World famous English course home to the National Hunt Festival or jump racing in the UK.
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