Our aim is to present the Public with a cheap, comprehensive, and useful Guide PANORAMIC SKETCH OF CHELTENHAM. LONDON: LONGMAN & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW; J. MAWE, 149, STRAND; 1828. Gough Adds Gloucester INTRODUCTION. THE high celebrity, and pre-eminent station to which CHELTENHAM has attained in the rank of Watering Places, has already so completely and thoroughly engrossed the attention of local Historiographers,-all emulously and elaborately aiming at the developement of circumstances confessedly too deeply buried in the Tomb of Time, to afford any rational clue whereby to trace its origin-that we deem it right to claim for the present publication no merit beyond that to which it aspires, as an unadorned, and unpretending, but, we trust, not an uninstructive sketch of THE TOWN itself, and of the objects of attraction and of interest which are so profusely scattered around its immediate vicinity, and within a limited range of the luxuriant, fertile, and picturesque country in which it is situated. Dismissing from our thoughts all vague, and unimportant, and consequently irrelevant conjecture, we desire but to record and to preserve every circumstance essentially connected with the Town's prosperity, and illustrative of its progress from obscurity to magnificence; and in this feeling we have preferred an adherence to simple, but authenticated facts, to the pursuit of any visionary speculation, which, however imposing, or flat |