Tewkesbury Buildings, Places & Plaques

Tewkesbury has a unique town pattern based on the three main roads hemmed between the Avon river and the Swilgate stream. Access to the land from the streets created gaps between the buildings which turned into alley ways. These right's of access allowed ...

This stunning view of the town, as seen from the very top of the tower of Tewkesbury Abbey, was taken in 1936 as part of the publicity for the appeal to raise funds for the restoration of the tower. The man on the ladder is is Jack Day, one of the ...

House in the High Street, or the "nodding gables", next to the Swan Inn, as it was then.  Stone lithograph by W.Walton, printed by Charles Hullmandell for M.Habershon, published in 1836

Diamond Jubilee Year, 18 September 1897, just one year after the first public showing of animated pictures in England, and the jerky figures of Bob Fitzsimmonds and Gentleman Jim Corbett flickered across the screen before a fascinated audience of ...

The rivers among which Tewkesbury lies were a considerable obstacle to land communications, and to some extent the town's situation near places at which it was possible to cross the rivers, especially the Avon, but also the Swilgate and the other streams, ...

Forthampton Court^[1], which in 1991 [2012] is still a family home, provides an excellent insight into the development of architecture as an outward symptom of the passage of time. Successive owners have imprinted on the house their own ...

This article was inspired by a request from the Civic Society, which wishes to place a plaque on the wall of the building that today houses a tax hire firm in Oldbury Road. It also enabled the use of photographs of Hone the Auctioneer, kindly made available ...

Tewkesbury’s flour mills have at least three claims to fame. The first is that in 2003, flour is still milled in the building erected on the Quay in 1865 by Samuel Healing  and is distributed widely. The second is the fictional resonance of ...

Here is a tale of a little local failure, the Coombe Hill Canal. Today, it is hidden away behind the Swan public house on the A38 between Tewkesbury and Gloucester near the junction with the road from Cheltenham. It is two and three quarter miles long ...

Tewkesbury has been a market town from at least the thirteenth century, when the Earls of Gloucester granted to the Burgesses of the town, the right to levy tolls on goods passing through the town.  These rights were first the subject of a Royal ...

The Star once stood on the corner of Quay Lane (as it was known before being widened to accommodate the railway) and Red Lane, where the rather attractive but derelict building with curved windows now stands. We only have a glimpse of the original ...

For centuries Tewkesbury was an important market town situated at the confluence of the Rivers Avon and Severn, although it was not until 1826 that the ferries crossing the Severn were replaced by a bridge. During the age of the horse, apart from ...

This Archive starts in 1726 with the property being owned by John Mansell of Evesham, a baker selling it to Henry Welsh (otherwise Welch) of Tewkesbury, a maltster for £200. In May 1737 Henry Welsh mortgaged for £200 - A parcel of ...

The papers within this Accession No. show that originally the property was part of the estate of Sir William Codrington who devised in his Will of 1789 to the use of Sir Christopher Bethell Codrington as 1st tenant for life - with it being lawful ...

The Documents and papers within this accession number show that these houses were originally part of an estate of William Ridler and his wife. In 1708 the estate consisting of houses in Key Lane [6 tenants named] and a parcel of meadow called ...

Let us enter the building up the Grand steps into the cosily dark gleaming oak-walled hall - now the reception area. The first room on the left was the Mayor's Parlour in the 17th. century. It has beautiful linenfold panelling, an open fireplace and a ...

The documents in this archive refer to houses in High Street – they were donated as referring to “The New Inn” 28 High Street but were found to also refer to houses either side giving names of owners and occupiers to abutments. The Archive came to the ...

The documents in this archive refer to houses in High Street – they were donated as referring to “The New Inn” 28 High Street but were found to also refer to houses either side giving names of owners and occupiers to abutments. The Archive came to the ...

The documents in this archive refer to houses in High Street – they were donated as referring to “The New Inn” 28 High Street but were found to also refer to houses either side giving names of owners and occupiers to abutments. The Archive came to the ...

This photograph, possibly Air Ministry from the 1950s was part of an article on William Harrison Grey who lived there as a ...

I was inspired to write this article when a photograph of 46 High Street, the office of Moore and Sons, graced the cover of a recent John Moore Society Journal . I hoped there would be an article based upon it, but I was to be disappointed. I, ...

How rapidly shops change! It does not seem long ago that M&Co was the Post Office. The photograph to the right is probably taken in the 1980s, judging by the cars.

49 High Street when owned by William Harrison Grey 's relations the Handleys (T.B.C. Gardner’s Guide, 1903...

64 High Street c 1958, now the site for Homeabbey House. (T.B.C.) Part of an article on William Harrison Grey , Bulletin 17

A difficulty in following the history of pubs is that their names change, and sometimes transfer from one property to another. This happened with 122 High Street, which until recently was the Orange Pig, a much-loved children’s clothes shop, but never ...

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This house is a Georgian building and is about eight feet wide.  The 1801 Tewkesbury Poor Book states a Joseph Bishop lived here paying £5 10s rent and 5s 6d rates. From 1851 is was the home of boot-makers, first mentioned was Thomas ...

Tourism in Tewkesbury clearly benefits from the buildings featured in the novels of Charles Dickens , Mrs. Craik and John Moore‘s ‘Brensham Trilogy ', based on Tewkesbury and the surrounding area. Researchers, however, can only ...

This article was original published inside the larger article about 91-92 Church Street - The Old Curiosity Shop Permission was obtained from the owners of Elizabethan Pine to carry out ...

The Hat Shop in Church Street, one of the old houses in Tewkesbury which has often been drawn and photographed, is older than it seems. On the street front it is apparently a later seventeenth century timber-framed building. At the side, over the archway ...

From Linnell :  Listed Grade II 18th century stuccoed brick front with parapet to timber frame. 3 storeys. 1 window, sashes in exposed moulded cases, no glazing bars. Brick chimney rising from parapet on left. Early 18th century ...

Probably one of the most well known and well liked pubs in Tewkesbury (website https://theberkeleyarms.pub/), it has a low key atmosphere good for conversations. Speciality food are very good pies. There are two ...

Starting life in the fifteenth century as a medieval house, it was a roomy dwelling for an affluent Tewkesbury family. It is thought that by the mid-seventeenth century, the house had become the location for a Nonconformist group, the Baptists, to hold ...

In 1832, William Bubb wrote his will. He left his house, at the sign of the King’s Arms, occupied by Thomas Buckley , to his wife. A later document identifies this building, and plot extending to the Swilgate, as 18, Church Street. At some ...

St Marys lane runs round the back of Church Street on the north side. It formed an access link between the backs of properties on Church Street and the buildings adjacent to the river Avon. In medieval times this was the core of ...

Visitors walking down the alleys which run from Barton Street to the Swilgate may sometimes pause to wonder how they came by their names. One such alley is Compton's, by the side of 'The Wool Basket', the shop which now occupies 77, Barton Street. It ...

This apparently disused building, now owned by the Hospital, has been the frequent subject of discussion – particularly because of the ‘Star of David’ which is incorporated into its fabric. It has never been a synagogue and was, for many years, the ...

In the sixteenth century, at the time of the dissolution of the monastery, Daniel Perte ,’Bailiff to the Lord King’ described a large inn called the Crowne, or New Inn, which backed on to the Swilgate. There is no better information, but the old ...