Tewkesbury

51.9925 - 2.1575Koordinaten: 52 ° 0 ' N, 2 ° 9' W

Tewkesbury is a town in Gloucestershire, England. It lies at the confluence of the Severn and the Avon and gives the Borough of Tewkesbury the name. The town's name derives from Theoc, an Anglo-Saxons, here, the in the 7th century founded a hermitage here, which was called Theocsbury.

According to the 2001 census, Tewkesbury had 10,016 inhabitants. Areas of Tewkesbury Northway are, Newtown, Mitton, Priors Park, Walton Cardiff, Wheat Pieces and Ashchurch.

History

A few years after the Norman Conquest of England founded Fitzhamon Robert and his wife Sibylle in Tewkesbury Abbey a. Construction began in 1090, the Tewkesbury Abbey was consecrated on October 23, 1121. There are also traces of a church and a settlement that existed prior to the abbey.

On May 4, 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury took place in the environment in which during the Wars of the Roses, the army of Edward IV struck the house of Lancaster.

In Tewkesbury geologist and Arctic explorer Raymond Priestley was born in 1886.

Twin Cities

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