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10 unusual facts about Prestbury


Bertie Kirby

His father, Henry Kirby, was a 51 year-old gardener, born in Prestbury, Gloucestershire and his mother, Fanny, was aged 54 and had been born in Gloucester.

British Steeplechasing Hall of Fame

Opened in 1994 at Cheltenham Racecourse, the Steeplechasing Hall of Fame is located at Prestbury Park, in the village of Prestbury, Gloucestershire.

Charles Lawson

In 2010, Lawson and his partner Debbie Stanley opened a farm shop in the centre of the Cheshire village of Prestbury.

David Plowright

David Ernest Plowright, CBE (11 December 1930, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire – 24 August 2006, Prestbury, Cheshire) was an English television executive and producer.

David Rutley

Although not a player, he is the honorary vice president of the Ash Tree Cricket Club, Prestbury, which is located within his constituency.

Evan Leigh

He married Anne Allen the daughter of James Allen Esq in Prestbury, Cheshire on 28 September 1831 they went on to have eight surviving children, three boys and five girls.

Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle

This is in honour of Baring Bingham, a developer who purchased Prestbury Park in 1898, and organised the first Cheltenham Festival in 1902.

Prestbury

Thomas Prestbury, a medieval English Benedictine abbot and university chancellor

Prestbury, Gloucestershire

Notable apprentices of his include Pat Eddery, Walter Swinburn and Mouse Morris (2006 Cheltenham Gold Cup winning trainer with War of Attrition).

Prestbury appears in the Doomsday Book of 1086 as Presteberie, part of the property of the church of Hereford, with residents as 18 villagers, five smallholders, a priest, a riding man and 11 slaves.


Macclesfield Cemetery

Macclesfield Cemetery, is a Victorian cemetery located on Prestbury Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

Nick Leslau

After Knutsford; in February 2001 Leslau set up private company Prestbury Investment Holdings, funded by HBOS and Sir Tom Hunter, with whom he has since done a number of Scottish based joint ventures with Hunter's West Coast Capital.