Tewkesbury

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Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 9 ′  W

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Tewkesbury is a town in the county of Gloucestershire , England . It is located at the confluence of the Severn and Avon and gives the Borough of Tewkesbury its name. The name of the place comes from Theoc, an Anglo-Saxon who founded a hermitage here in the 7th century, which was called Theocsbury.

According to the 2001 census, Tewkesbury had 10,016 residents. Neighborhoods of Tewkesbury are Northway, Newtown, Mitton, Priors Park, Walton Cardiff, Wheatpieces, and Ashchurch.

history

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

On May 4, 1471, the Battle of Tewkesbury took place in the area , in which the Army of Edward IV defeated the House of Lancaster as part of the Wars of the Roses .

The geologist and polar explorer Raymond Priestley was born in Tewkesbury in 1886 . In 1988 the singer FKA twigs was born there.

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