Excerpt from Griffith's New Historical Description of Cheltenham and Its Vicinity, Vol. 1: Dedicated to the King's Most Excellent Majesty Accommodations, too, for the grave as well as the gay, for the serious as well as the thoughtless, have not been neglected. Extensive and advantageous improvements in the mother church, a new one lately built, another in progress, a free church, and an episcopal chapel in contemplation - these all with the national ritual ser vice; together with numerous places of public worship for separatists of all denominations, afford unequivocal proofs that the wants of a rapidly increasing population have been met by corresponding exertions, and aecom modations even the retiring meditant, though sur rounded by an unexampled display of life and anima tion, in the most seductive forms, may find ample oppor tunity for passing his days in congenial pursuits, to which, under less happy circumstances, the giddy 'whirl around him might oppose a barrier, or an antidote. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.