It was known as the Cheltenham Home and Hospital for the Aged from 1965 through to 1970, before it was renamed to its present day name, the Kingston Centre.

Gilbert Laird Jessop ( 19 May 1874, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire – 11 May 1955, Fordington, Dorset ) was an English cricket player, often reckoned to have been the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1898.

A local landmark is Churchdown Hill ( also known locally as Chosen Hill ), which rises to 154 metres ( 510 ft ) above sea level and has views across the Severn Vale and to the Cotswolds, Gloucester, Cheltenham, the Malvern Hills, and into Worcestershire.

The first horse race known as the Cheltenham Gold Cup took place in July 1819.

The line was originally part of the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham – Stratford-upon-Avon – Birmingham line, known as the Honeybourne Line, built in 1900 – 1906, and runs through the Cotswold towns of Winchcombe and Bishop's Cleeve.

The station launched in April 2002 ( From 7 September 1998 to 2002, it was known as CAT FM which operated from the Regent Arcade in Cheltenham.

" Roy ", as he was known to his family, was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where his father was headmaster, and Uppingham School.

A poem, Ad beatam Virginem, generally known as the Mother of God, and once attributed to Chaucer, is copied among Hoccleve's works in manuscript Phillipps 8151 ( Cheltenham ), and may thus be regarded as his work.

* June 6-The Great Western Railway's Cheltenham Spa Express passenger train ( popularly known as the Cheltenham Flyer ) sets a new speed record as 4-6-0 locomotive Tregenna Castle hauls it from Swindon to London Paddington,, at an average speed of.

Other completed projects in the UK include The Cube in Birmingham, the Montpellier Chapter hotel in Cheltenham, the Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute for the University of Oxford, and the Handball Arena for the London 2012 Olympics, known as the Copper Box.

In 1901, the Cheltenham Loop, now known as the Gloucester avoiding line, was re-instated primarily for goods traffic, but also for passengers from 1908.

In the late 1990s to early 2000s, a club called Endsleigh, later known as EFC Cheltenham, played in the Hellenic Football League.

For a short period following the 2006 season, the competition was known as the ECB Trophy because no sponsors were forthcoming when Cheltenham and Gloucester decided to end their association with the competition after the 2006 season.

For his achievements with Cheltenham Town he is known as " The Messiah of Whaddon Road " by adulatory fans.

The station was opened on 3 July 1854 and was previously known as Andover Junction, as it stood at the junction of the Exeter-London line and the now-defunct Midland and South Western Junction Railway running between Cheltenham, Swindon, Andover and Southampton Terminus.

Francis Joseph Leopold Frederick, known as " Frank " was born at Kensington Palace and educated at Wellington College, Cheltenham College ( Stone, 1912, p. xviii ) and RMA Sandhurst.

Die Trip Computer Die are a British underground rock trio led by noise decomposer / video artist Lepke Buchwater ( Milk from Cheltenham ) with Xentos ' Fray ' Bentos ( also known as Pete the Drummer, Dr. Shagnasty and ' Bubbles ' in the Beyoncé fan club ) and Ted Barrow.

In October 2010, the 1st XV took part in a tournament at Durham School dubbed the ' Veterrimi IV ' or ' oldest four ', along with Durham School, Cheltenham College, and Rugby School itself.

Gielgud was married five times, the first in 1921 while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford, where he married an eighteen year-old schoolgirl, whose name is recorded only as ' Tata ', who was a student at Cheltenham Ladies College.

He moved to Cheltenham in 1859 where he designed five Anglican churches, which were All Saints ', Holy Apostles, St. Mark's, St. Philip & St. James and St. Stephen's Churches.

The festival takes place annually in March at Cheltenham Racecourse in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

The Abbey School Tewkesbury, which educated, trained and provided choristers to sing the service of Evensong from its foundation in 1973 by Miles Amherst, closed in 2006 ; the choir was then re-housed at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and renamed the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum.

The 1998 event was pitched as the " last Greenbelt of its kind ", with two festivals planned for 1999: a youth-oriented event " Freestate " in partnership with Spring Harvest to be held the August Bank Holiday weekend and a more family-oriented " Greenbelt " to be held over the last weekend in July at Cheltenham Racecourse.

In early 1999 plans for Freestate collapsed and its embryonic programme was hastily rolled into the Greenbelt planned for Cheltenham.

Greenbelt emerged from its financial difficulties in the early 2000s with ever-increasing audiences for festival held at the new Cheltenham racecourse.

His son Christopher Loudon Wallis was instrumental in the restoration of the watermill and its building on the Stanway Estate near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

It received its premiere at the Cheltenham Music Festival.

Simms ' documented plans to manufacture Daimler motors and Daimler Motor Carriages ( in Cheltenham ) were taken over, together with his company and its Daimler licences, by London company-promoter H J Lawson.

The principal club is the South Australian Jockey Club, which races at Morphettville ( and previously Cheltenham until its closure in 2009, and Victoria Park until 2008 ).

) Droitwich Spa, Worcester, Tewkesbury, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Weston-super-Mare, Burnham-on-Sea, Bridgwater and Taunton on its way to Exeter, ending at Junction 31.

See for example the University of Gloucestershire which has the Cheltenham Mechanics ' Institute ( 1834 ) and Gloucester Mechanics ' Institute ( 1840 ) within its history timeline.

The dual carriageway section south of Longbridge island is the only part of the A46 on its original routing between Leicester and Cheltenham.

After a gap filled in by the A435, the A46 reappears on its original route in the centre of Cheltenham.

The Rowing Club can trace its roots back to 1865 when it hosted a competition between Shrewsbury School and Cheltenham College.

It broadcasts from its studios in London Rd, Gloucester on 95 ( Stroud ), 95. 8 ( Cirencester ), 104. 7 ( Gloucester, Cheltenham & Tewkesbury ) FM, 1413 AM in the Cotswolds & Forest of Dean and over the internet.

The music parts being used by the BSO are the ones used by Paavo himself, and the Orchestra dedicated its concerts on 26 January in Cheltenham, and 27 January at Portsmouth Guildhall to his memory.

In 1919, Room 40 was deactivated and its function merged with the British Army's intelligence unit MI1b to form the Government Code and Cypher School ( GCCS ), which was housed at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and subsequently renamed Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) and relocated to Cheltenham.

Cheltenham shares its postcode of 2119 with Beecroft and has sometimes been viewed as simply part of that suburb.

From its early days, Cheltenham was almost exclusively a residential suburb with no shopping area developed at all in its planning.

As steeplechasing entered its modern era, the ' Cheltenham Festival ' became the pinnacle of the season, providing a series of championship races which virtually all top horses would be targeted at.

Though none of its successors has achieved the same critical acclaim, Adiemus acquired a cult following and maintained a place in mainstream consciousness through its use in TV commercials, in particular the track Adiemus in a Delta Air Lines commercial ( for which the project began ), and Cantilena from Cantata Mundi in a recent Cheltenham & Gloucester commercial.

While Eton and Cheltenham parade their colours on rare occasions, the Duke of York's Royal Military School parades its colours briefly each Sunday as the Parade enters Chapel, and on a number of ceremonial parades in the course of the year.