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18-716: Bouncer's Lane Cemetery , also known as Cheltenham Cemetery and Prestbury Cemetery , at Bouncer's Lane, Prestbury , Cheltenham , is a cemetery founded by the Burial Board of the Improvement Commissioners for Cheltenham. Consecrated in 1864, it remains municipal property and includes a crematorium . The cemetery was the last of four designed by William Henry Knight , including Hereford Cemetery (1858), Great Malvern Cemetery (1861), and Shipston-on-Stour Cemetery (1863). All of them have chapels and other features similar to those at Bouncer's Lane. During

36-529: A Burial Board, and this looked for an area of land of between twelve and twenty acres (c 5–8ha) within two miles of Cheltenham. In February 1861 land at Bouncer's Lane was bought, some from the Rev. John Edwards and some from the Poor Lands. In July 1861 the Burial Board decided to announce a competition for the design of its new cemetery, with a prize of forty guineas for the winning design. In due course this

54-514: A priest, a riding man and 11 slaves. By the 13th century it had become Presbery . In 1249 the Bishop of Hereford was granted permission to hold a weekly market along with a three-day annual fair in August. The village became eclipsed by Cheltenham following the end of the medieval period. The market started to decline in the 15th century and had lapsed completely by the start of the 18th century. In

72-490: Is hazardous and sometimes deadly . It is a gas, and it usually enters the body when it is breathed in. The quantities ingested in drinking water are much lower and are not considered likely to cause harm, but few studies on long-term, low-level exposure have been done, as of 2003 . The water of mineral springs is sometimes claimed to have therapeutic value. Mineral spas are resorts that have developed around mineral springs, where (often wealthy) patrons would repair to "take

90-629: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission in the cloisters of the crematorium. Prestbury, Gloucestershire Prestbury is a village and civil parish in the borough of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire , England. Located on the outskirts of Cheltenham and part of the Tewkesbury parliamentary constituency . The parish of Prestbury had a population of 6,981 according to the 2011 census. The name of

108-570: The 2006 Cheltenham Gold Cup winning trainer with the horse War of Attrition. Prestbury civil parish has been in the Borough of Cheltenham since 1991; it was in Cheltenham Rural District from 1894 to 1974, and the Borough of Tewkesbury from 1974 to 1991. The parish is presently split between four wards of the Borough of Cheltenham: Swindon Village, Prestbury, Pittville (a very small part) and Oakley; three electoral divisions of

126-944: The King's Arms, was the village's main public house , and it was here that the 19th-century jockey Fred Archer grew up, his father being the landlord of the pub. There are three further village pubs: the Plough, the Beehive and the Royal Oak. The village is home to Prestbury Park, the Cheltenham Racecourse , which holds the Gold Cup race each March. Racehorse trainers Frenchy Nicholson and his son David Nicholson had stables in Prestbury. Notable Nicholson apprentices include Pat Eddery , Walter Swinburn , and Mouse Morris

144-545: The cemetery, apart from a group of ten Australian war graves. A total of 71 Commonwealth and two Polish service personnel were buried here in the Second World War , half of whom occupy a large war graves plot in the eastern section of the cemetery. A further 29 Commonwealth servicemen and women of the Second World War were cremated at Cheltenham Crematorium and are commemorated by bronze panels erected by

162-430: The chemical composition of the water produced and according to the medicinal benefits supposedly accruing from each: Types of sedimentary rock – usually limestone ( calcium carbonate ) – are sometimes formed by the evaporation , or rapid precipitation , of minerals from spring water as it emerges, especially at the mouths of hot mineral springs. In cold mineral springs, the rapid precipitation of minerals results from

180-405: The county of Gloucestershire: St Paul's and Swindon, Pittville and Prestbury, and All Saints and Oakley; and two parliamentary constituencies: Tewkesbury and Cheltenham. Mineral spring Some mineral springs may contain significant amounts of harmful dissolved minerals, such as arsenic , and should not be drunk. Sulfur springs smell of rotten eggs due to hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), which

198-466: The early 19th century, Cheltenham became fashionable as a spa , and the population grew, with many elderly and ailing people taking up residence there. As a result, there was not enough burial space, even after a new burial ground was laid out in the town in 1829–1830. In 1857 the Improvement Commissioners for Cheltenham set out to use the Burial Acts to provide a large new cemetery. They established

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216-630: The east and new land to the north-west was bought. Further new areas were acquired in 1926 and in the 1990s. In 1938, a crematorium was built near the south chapel, at a time when there were only a few dozen in Great Britain. In 1995, a restoration programme for the cemetery buildings was launched. Cheltenham Cemetery contains the war graves of 110 Commonwealth service personnel of the First World War , most of whom died in local voluntary wartime hospitals. Monuments are scattered throughout

234-479: The middle of the 18th century a mineral spring was discovered in the parish, and by 1751 a local landowner, Lord Craven , had a business providing bathing and lodging. However it did not last past the end of the century. The Prestbury War Memorial is a Cotswold stone gothic revival column with six engraved panels commemorating the villagers who died in the First World War (1914–1918). The memorial

252-542: The reduction of acidity when the CO 2 gas bubbles out. (These mineral deposits can also be found in dried lakebeds.) Spectacular formations, including terraces, stalactites , stalagmites and 'frozen waterfalls' can result (see, for example, Mammoth Hot Springs ). One light-colored porous calcite of this type is known as travertine and has been used extensively in Italy and elsewhere as building material. Travertine can have

270-461: The village means "Priests’ fortified place", from Anglo-Saxon preost and burh , possibly from a fortified manor house belonging to the Bishop of Hereford in the 13th century. The settlement is mentioned as Preosdabyrig in 899-904. Prestbury is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Presteberie", part of the property of the church of Hereford , with 18 villagers , five smallholders,

288-600: The waters" — meaning that they would drink (see hydrotherapy and water cure ) or bathe in (see balneotherapy ) the mineral water. Historical mineral springs were often outfitted with elaborate stone-works — including artificial pools, retaining walls , colonnades , and roofs — sometimes in the form of fanciful "Greek temples", gazebos , or pagodas . Others were entirely enclosed within spring houses . For many centuries, in Europe, North America, and elsewhere, commercial proponents of mineral springs classified them according to

306-565: Was severely damaged in October 2011 in an act of vandalism when the column was toppled to the ground and smashed. There are claims that Prestbury is the most haunted village in England, and one of the most haunted in Britain. The village shops include two stores and petrol station with store. There is a public library, three hairdressers, a pharmacy, and a butcher. A brasserie and pub,

324-404: Was won by the architect W. H. Knight of Cheltenham, who proposed two Gothic chapels, joined by a porte-cochère , with a spire above it. These buildings were built between 1862 and 1864 at a cost of about £4,300, in a park with many ornamental trees and shrubs. The new cemetery was consecrated by Charles Ellicott , Bishop of Gloucester , on 19 November 1864. In 1883 the cemetery was extended to

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