The Victoria History of Gloucestershire: Cheltenham before the Spa (Vch Shorts)

Craven, Alex (EDT)

University of London Press（2018/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 180 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781909646742
• DDC分類 942.416081

Full Description

The familiar image of Cheltenham, a large and prosperousformer spa town, world-famous on account of its Georgian and Regencyarchitecture, its festivals and educational establishments, masks an earlierhistory. While numerous descriptions of the town have been published over theyears, most say little about the many centuries of its existence before the1740s, when it began to develop as a fashionable resort. This is the fullestaccount ever attempted to chronicle those centuries, from the late Saxon perioduntil the 18th century. In this period, Cheltenham developed into a successfulsmall town, ranged along a single main street, with the market and tradesserving not only its own needs but also those of the surrounding countryside.It draws on a range of documentary sources preserved in local and nationalarchives, many of them never examined in detail before. It therefore helps toexplain the foundations upon which present-day Cheltenham was constructed.