AYEAR IN CHELTENHAM sees a jazz festival, a science festival, a classical music festival and a literature festival. Few towns with 120,000 residents can boast such a huge cultural output!
Though its history as a spa town is slowly but surely being eclipsed by its more contemporary identity as a festival town, a sense of wellbeing rests over Cheltenham. It’s still possible to draw spa water from the Pitville Pump Room, and wherever you want to go in town you’ll probably have to walk through (or at least past) a park to get there. The town is surrounded by hills on all sides, so you don’t have to travel far to enjoy a refreshing country walk.
Although small and embedded in its natural surroundings, Cheltenham nonetheless has a metropolitan feel. You’re not hard pressed to find bars, breweries and coffee roasteries. On the other hand, as the UK’s best-preserved regency town, you’ll also feel like you’re moving through a little
