Places to see in ( Cheltenham - UK )
Places to see in ( Cheltenham - UK )
Cheltenham is a town in Gloucestershire, England, home to the renowned Cheltenham Festival, 4 days of horse jump racing culminating in the Gold Cup, held annually in March at Cheltenham Racecourse. It's also known for Regency buildings, including the Pittville Pump Room, a remnant of Cheltenham’s past as a spa town. There's fine art at The Wilson museum, and the Victorian Everyman Theatre has an ornate auditorium.
Cheltenham also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a regency spa town and borough which is located on the edge of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England. With a motto of Salubritas et Eruditio meaning 'health and education', Cheltenham has been a health and holiday spa town resort since the discovery of mineral springs in 1716 and has a high number of internationally renowned and historic schools.
The town hosts several festivals of culture, often featuring nationally and internationally famous contributors and attendees. The list of festivals includes: the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, the Cheltenham Science Festival, the Cheltenham Music Festival and the Cheltenham Food & Drink Festival. As the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup is the main event of the Cheltenham Festival, held every March.
Cheltenham Spa railway station is located on the Bristol-Birmingham main line. The Cheltenham Spa Express, once known as the Cheltenham Flyer. Cheltenham is adjacent to the M5 motorway (between Bristol and Birmingham) and its junction with the A417 to Swindon. Cheltenham was a terminus of the Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramroad.
Alot to see in ( Cheltenham - UK ) such as :
The Wilson
Cleeve Hill
Sudeley Castle
Belas Knap
Hidcote Manor Garden
Snowshill Manor
Gloucester Cathedral
Lodge Park and Sherborne Estate
Royal Crescent
Pittville Park
Montpellier Gardens
Sandford Park
Nature in Art
Barnwood Arboretum, Nature Reserve & Park
Hatherley Park
Prinknash Abbey Park
Winston Churchill Memorial Gardens
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On the Cotswold Way and Cleeve Hill
A 21km (13 mile) circular walk following part of the Cotswold Way near Cheltenham on a warm day in early spring. We visited Cleeve Hill - the highest point in the Cotswolds - and also Belas Knap, a 5,000-year-old neolithic long barrow (tomb). We set off from the village of Whittington and walked a clockwise route, which was full of interest and surprises. It took about 5 hours including picnic stops. Thank you to all subscribers - we are close to the magic 100!
A romantic weekend in the COTSWOLDS // Explore UK
It was Chrissa's Birthday so I took her to dinner at Benihana and surprised her with a romantic weekend away in the Cotswolds.
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Cheltenham – A Local Guide by Premier Inn
Ross from our Cheltenham Town Centre Premier Inn hotel is your local guide to Cheltenham, the most complete regency town in the country. Join him as he takes you on a tour of some of the town’s top attractions, such as Cheltenham Town Hall, The Neptune Fountain, Cheltenham Minster, Pittville Pump Room, Sudeley Castle, and the Georgian townhouses of The Promenade.
On top of that we pay a visit to the Everyman Theatre, The Wilson, and talk culture with a run-through of the calendar events that contribute so much to Cheltenham’s culture such as the Cheltenham Festival, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham Music Festival and The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.
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Walking the Cotswold Way with Contours Walking Holidays
Outdoor Journalist Damian Hall takes a walk from Chipping Campden to the Heritage Listed City of Bath, along one of the most quintessentially English trails in the country.
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Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, England from Travel with Iva Jasperson
Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, England from Travel with Iva Jasperson
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Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire,[1] at the second-highest point of the Cotswolds. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet above sea level. The tower itself stands 65 feet high.
The Saxon tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1798–99. The tower was built on a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester — about 22 miles (35 km) away — and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s. William Morris was so inspired by Broadway Tower and other ancient buildings that he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the center of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee, as well as a gift shop and restaurant. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village.
Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
In the late 1950s, Broadway Tower monitored nuclear fallout in England; an underground ROC Corps bunker was built 50 yards from the Tower. Manned continuously from 1961 and designated as a master post, the bunker was one of the last such Cold War bunkers constructed and, although officially stood down in 1991, the bunker is now one of the few remaining fully equipped facilities in England.
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Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling Madness!
Quite possibly one of the most bizarre and dangerous traditions in the United Kingdom! Watch as locals and visitors race 200 yards down an incredibly steep hill in pursuit of a wheel of cheese traveling 70 mph. Glory, pain, and laughter follows!
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Historic County Tops Of England Challenge
In 2016, I decided to set myself a little challenge. I wanted to explore more places in England, and so it began, to conquer the 39 highest points of the Historic Counties of England.
The Historic (or true) counties are the administrative areas that survived for more than a hundred years before sweeping local government changes in the 1970s.
They have shaped the UK's cultural and geographical identity, and while their boundaries may not be marked on modern maps, they were never formally abolished and so live on.
- The UK's County Tops - Jonny Muir.
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Here's the List of the Tops in the order I completed them.
1. Brown Willy - Cornwall - 420m.
2. High Whillays - Devon - 621m.
3. Dunkery Beacon - Somerset - 519m.
4. Cold Overtone Park - Rutland - 197m.
5. Kinder Scout - Derbyshire - 636m.
6. Lewesdon Hill - Dorset - 279m.
7. Milk Hill - Wiltshire - 295m.
8. Walbury Hill - Berkshire - 297m.
9. Pilot Hill - Hampshire - 286m.
10. Bald Hill - Oxfordshire - 257m.
11. Black Down - Sussex - 280m.
12. Leith Hill - Surrey - 294m.
13. Betsom's Hill - Kent - 251m.
14. Bushey Heath - Middlesex - 153m.
15. Black Mountain - Herefordshire - 244m.
16. Brown Clee Hill - Shropshire - 540m.
17. Black Hill - Cheshire - 582m.
18. Cheeks Hill - Staffordshire - 520m.
19. Worcestershire Beacon - Worcestershire - 425m.
20. Cleeve Common - Gloucestershire - 330m.
21. Bardon Hill - Leicestershire - 278m.
22. Scafell Pike - Cumberland - 978m.
23. Great Wood - Suffolk - 128m.
24. Great Chishill - Cambridgeshire - 146m.
25. Chrishall Common - Essex - 147m.
26. Boring Hill - Huntingdonshire - 80m.
27. Haddington Hill - Buckinghampshire - 267m.
28. Pavis Wood - Hertfordshire - 244m.
29. Dunstable Downs - Bedfordshire - 243m.
30. Helvellyn - Westmorland - 950m.
31. The Old Man Of Coniston - Lancashire - 803m.
32. Normanby Top - Lincolnshire - 168m.
33. Silverhill - Nottinghamshire - 204m.
34. Beacon Hill - Norfolk - 105m.
35. Ebrington Hill - Warwickshire - 261m.
36. The Cheviot - Northumberland - 815m.
37. Burnhope Seat - Durhum - 746m.
38. Mickle Fell - Yorkshire - 788m.
39. Arbury Hill - Northamptonshire - 225m.
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Wiltshire Country Walk Cotswolds Castle Combe and By Brook round
Our video is a guided circular walk from Castle Combe in the Cotswolds, Wiltshire. Starting from Castle Combe car park we walk through the village then follow the By Brook (river) on the Macmillan Way to the villages of Long Dean and Ford. We return via Nettleton Mill House and the golf course.This is an easy walk on grass and gravel footpaths/tracks and some tarmac road. There are some stiles and gates, inclines and declines.
Elevation: approx lowest point 62.20m (205.38ft) approx highest point 126.50m (415.03ft) approx ascent 229.10m (751.64ft).
Approx 5.8 miles allow 2½ - 3 hours using OS Explorer Map 156, Chippenham and Bradford-on-Avon. This walk is done clockwise.
Start point: Castle Combe Car Park (free).
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Places to see in ( Watchet - UK )
Places to see in ( Watchet - UK )
Watchet is a harbour town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Somerset, with a population of 3,785. It is situated 15 miles west of Bridgwater, 15 miles north-west of Taunton, and 9 miles east of Minehead. The parish includes the hamlet of Beggearn Huish. The town lies at the mouth of the Washford River on Bridgwater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel, and on the edge of Exmoor National Park.
The original settlement may have been at the Iron Age fort Daw's Castle. It then moved to the mouth of the river and a small harbour developed, named by the celts as Gwo Coed meaning Under the Wood. After the Saxon conquest of the area the town developed and was known as Weced or Waeced and was attacked by Vikings in the 10th century. Trade using the harbour gradually grew, despite damage during several severe storms, with import and exports of goods including those from Wansbrough Paper Mill until the 19th century when it increased with the export of iron ore, brought from the Brendon Hills via the West Somerset Mineral Railway, mainly to Newport for onward transportation to the Ebbw Vale Steelworks. The West Somerset Railway also served the town and port bringing goods and people from the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The iron ore trade reduced and ceased in the early-20th century. The port continued a smaller commercial trade until 2000 when it was converted into a marina.
The church is dedicated to Saint Decuman who is thought to have died here around 706. An early church was built near Daw's Castle and a new church was erected in the 15th century. It has several tombs and monuments to Sir John Wyndham and his family who were the lords of the manor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which was written in the area is commemorated by a statue on the harbourside.
Daw's Castle (Dart's Castle or Dane's Castle) is an Iron Age sea cliff hill fort about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the west of the town. It was built and fortified, on the site of an earlier settlement, as a burh by Alfred the Great, as part of his defense against Viking raids from the Bristol Channel around 878 AD. Watchet is believed to be the place where Saint Decuman was killed around 706 and its parish church is dedicated to him. At the time of the Domesday Book Watchet was part of the estate held by William de Moyon. The parish of Watchet was in the Williton and Freemanners Hundred in the Middle Ages.
Watchet developed as a town thanks to its closeness to the minerals within the Brendon Hills, and its access to the River Severn for onward shipping. Aside from local ships plying trade across the river, from 1564 onwards the port was used for import of salt and wine from France.
The foreshore at Watchet is rocky, with a high 6 metres (20 ft) tidal range. The cliffs between Watchet and Blue Anchor show a distinct pale, greenish blue colour, resulting from the coloured alabaster found there. The name Watchet or Watchet Blue was used in the 16th century to denote this colour. A fragment of a lower jaw from a Phytosaur longirostrine archosaur has been described from early Hettangian strata. Kentsford Bridge is a packhorse bridge over the Washford River. It existed before the Reformation, possibly being a route to Cleeve Abbey and was repaired in 1613. The bridge is 54 inches (1,400 mm) wide and has a total span of 16 feet (4.9 m).
Adjacent to the harbour is Watchet station. This is now an intermediate stop on the West Somerset Railway, a largely steam-operated heritage railway that links Bishops Lydeard, near Taunton, with Minehead. The station was first opened on 31 March 1862 when the West Somerset Railway was opened from Norton Junction. The station was built as a terminus, as part of the commercial aim of the WSR was to provide a wider and cheaper distribution route for goods from the then major port of Watchet. On 16 July 1874 the line was extended westwards by the Minehead Railway Company, with an industrial railway siding provided at the same time into the Wansbrough Paper Mill.
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