Tewkesbury Town
Tewkesbury Town
Join me for a walk around the lovely riverside town of Tewkesbury in the southwest of England. It's famous for its Abbey, alleyways and black and white Tudor buildings.
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Tewkesbury Abbey: Explore Robert fitzHamon's Parish Church in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
After leaving Cardiff Bay we went to Monmouth Castle. There were only a couple of walls, but the military museum next to it had some interesting stuff. Monmouth Castle was built from 1066-1067 by William fitzOsbern; the same man who built Chepstow. It sits on a hill overlooking the River Monnow. It was briefly held by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, then by Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, who rebuilt the timber structure in stone and added the Great Hall. King Edward II was held as prisoner at Monmouth briefly, and King Henry V, son of Henry Bolingbroke and Mary de Bohun, was born there. Oliver Cromwell had the castle slighted in 1646, and the round tower collapsed after an attack on 30 of March. The Great House was built in 1673 on the site, and is now the home of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Militia and their museum. Following are links to people associated with Monmouth Castle that we are descended from:
William fitzOsbern
Mary de Bohun
King Edward II
Edmund Crouchback
Since Monmouth turned out to be nothing much, we managed to get to Tewkesbury barely in time to go in. As with most churches, except for Canterbury, it was free. We had planned to stay the night around there and visit the abbey the next morning, but I saw a sign for the abbey before we saw any hotels so we stopped. The sign out front (or was it back?) said we had about an hour before they closed the gate, but we left after that time and they were still open. People were arriving so there must have been something going on.
Officially called the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury Abbey is deceptively large and beautiful. Other pictures, taken from vantage points we didn't have access to, give a better indication of the size and building style. Even before entering the church we were impressed by the enormous Deodar Cedar and Copper Beech trees.
Building of the abbey began in 1102 by Robert fitzHamon. He was wounded at Falaise in Normandy and died in 1107, but the work was continued by his son-in-law, Robert fitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester. However, there had been centers of Christian worship on the site, or near to it, since the mid-7th century. The church was made of Caen Stone imported from Normandy and floated up the Severn River.
Following the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471 some Lancastrians fled into the abbey, but the Yorkists forced their way in and slaughtered them. The church was closed for a month so it could be cleaned and re-consecrated. It was surrendered to the Crown at the Dissolution of the Monasteries on 9 January 1539. The townspeople claimed it was their parish church and bought it from the Crown for the value of its bells and lead roof, totaling £453. The bell tower was used as the jail, or gaol, until it was demolished in the late 18th century. The original central tower, the largest Romanesque tower in England, was topped with a wooden spire, but that collapsed in 1559 and was never rebuilt.
Of interest are the church's organs, three of them, one dating to the 17th century though it has been rebuilt several times. Also there are many well known and important people buried there. Below are links to our pages for some of them.
Robert fitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester (we have listed him as Robert the King's Son de Caen)
Robert fitzHamon
Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford
Gilbert the Red Earl de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester
Hugh le Despenser - both the Elder and the Younger
Tewkesbury Abbey Official Site
Tewkesbury Abbey on Facebook
Paranormal Excursion Tewkesbury Museum Episode #007
Join the team as we re-visit one of our favourite locations, The Tewkesbury Museum.
Disused Railways Tewkesbury Station Gloucestershire
Disused Railways – Tewkesbury railway station site, Gloucestershire UK. Tewkesbury once boasted two stations, one in town and one on this branch line to Malvern. The railway in town was used mainly to serve the flour mill and also to make a connection to the Severn. The this station was soon closed and today nothing remains of the old line save the odd plaque, whilst the out of town station continued, having been built to serve the ‘Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway’ in 1864. The surface of the sizeable car park remains and shows the extent of use suggesting a large passenger throughput.
Photographs suggest quite a large station complex that one would expect to yield some remains among the bushes and scrub. The truth on the ground reveals that in 50-60 years since it closed, Mother Nature has done a fine job of hiding the remains. It would be possible with the right equipment to excavate the foundation no doubt, but scraping a boot across the surface is a poor substitute. Diligence and patients paid off and a number of finds were unearthed, along with substantial remains of the signal box. Certainly enough to hazard a guess at the general layout of points Roding and signal cables. In all quite a satisfying visit.
Ghost Walk Tewkesbury
The ghost tour of Tewkesbury,
Come on join TSPI for a ghostly adventure of Tewkesbury, ghostly
Monks, soliders and dogs await you on this walk and much more paranormal goings on.
You will see the ghostly side to Tewkesbury that very few people know about. You will see the paranormal side of this town like never before. Join the tour and lern about the ghosts that haunt Tewkesbury.
TSPI (Tewkesbury Society for Paranormal Investigation)
tspi.webs.com
Please note that the Orb photos were taken by TSPI on the 31st july 2010 at the old baptist chapple
The Jet Age Museum Fun day - Gloucestershire airport
The Jet Age Museum Fun day - Gloucestershire airport
Gloucestershire Aviation Museum - Open weekends 10-4pm
Jet Age Museum is a member of Tewkesbury Museums Partnership, Gloucestershire Museums Group, the British Aviation Preservation Council and the Association of Independent Museums.
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Email - jetagemuseum@hotmail.co.uk
Website -
its a great day out... amazing planes! Dont take my word for it go check it out yourself
Tewkesbury re-enactment 2014
Make your own Hitler video at
Highest Valuation, A rare 18th century dress, Tewkesbury Abbey, Antiques Roadshow
rare 18th century dress with international collect ability.
absolute rare find
Orbs at Tewkesbury Museum
Video of orbs during seance at Tewkesbury Museum in August 2007.
Video taken by Steve A. of 3CPO.
UK TEWKESBURY LOCAL FESTIVEL 2013
WE ALL GOT FUN AND ENJOY THERE.PEOPLE WHO LIVING THERE ALL FRIENDLY.
Scale Model of Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire
I have designed and produced this 1:240 scale model of Tewkesbury Abbey, to be sold in Kit Form. It is really for the dedicated model-maker, but the unmade kits are fast becoming collectable in their own right. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds unmade copies of most of my other models of English Cathedrals and abbeys. Tewkesbury Abbey has not endorsed this model and is not connected to the production of this video in any way whatsoever.
Ghost Hunt at Tewkesbury Shop
Orb or not you decide
GWR 158957 // 1V94 09:00 Brighton - Great Malvern @ Ashchurch for Tewkesbury (26/01/2019)
In this short video, we see 158957 departing Ashchurch for Tewkesbury working Great Western Railway's 1V94 09:00 Brighton - Great Malvern. Thanks to the driver for the 1 tone!
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Tewkesbury Visit, Part X, 'The Avon and Severn Rivers ' by Sheila, 23rd May 2016
Unfortunately the Museum was closed --I discovered that most of the shops are closed on Mondays.Therefore I decided to just look around and came across the river, the lock and the barges, the mills and a lovely walk
Spotlights of Museum wedding dresses from 1775 - 1899
Wedding gown from 1775 with wide side hoops, Wedding dresses with removable sleeves, colorful, practical wedding gowns, Quaker wedding gown...
Tewkesbury High Street Safety Scheme
3D model of a street safety scheme developed for Tewkesbury High Street, Gloucestershire, UK.
Drunk somewhere in Tewkesbury
At this point i would like to say that i`m not drunk and i`m just acting!!!
Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook. It gives its name to the Borough of Tewkesbury, of which the town is the second largest settlement.
The name Tewkesbury comes from Theoc, the name of a Saxon who founded a hermitage there in the 7th century, and in the Old English tongue was called Theocsbury. An erroneous derivation from Theotokos enjoyed currency in the monastic period of the town's history.
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antiques roadshow - british museum
ספטמבר 2010. לונדון British Museum
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THE FAMOUS TEWKESBURY
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