Cheltenham

Nursing Homes near Cheltenham

Gloucestershire

Approximate Population: 98,875

For much of it’s existence Cheltenham has lead the quiet life. There is an Iron-Age camp on Leckhampton Hill overlooking the town, but it was the Saxons that first settled in the area, there was a monastery here by 803 and by the time of the Domesday book (1086) the area was in the possession of Reinbald, a priest, and Chancellor to Edward the Confessor.

The property remained in the hands of the church – in 1226 the town was granted the right to hold a market – until the dissolution. The original town consisted solely of the High Street and practically no medieval buildings have survived. During the Civil War John Dutton of Sherbourne was the Lord of the Manor, one of the Royalists who were willing to compound for confiscated estates; he eventually developed a friendship with Cromwell. Cheltenham suffered little.

The modern history of Cheltenham begins in 1716 with the discovery of a spring possessing purgative properties, this became the Royal Old Well, the Spa was well and truly started and soon became a paradise for speculators gambling on the over-indulgence of the Georgian upper-classes.

Nursing Homes near Cheltenham

Gloucestershire