There are two golf courses on the outskirts of Tewkesbury, a number excellent restaurants and several hotels. Tewkesbury is a popular tourist destination, particularly for those interested in history and historic buildings; there being almost 400 buildings listed as being of special architectural or historic interest including numerous half-timbered Tudor houses. A Benedictine abbey was founded in Tewkesbury in 715 and the 11th-century abbey with the grandest Norman tower in the country sould not be be missed by any serious student of Norman architecture. There is a large impressive recessed arch beneath the abbey tower and Inside are massive Norman pillars and the dazzling roof of the 14th-century choir. Medieval tombs and monuments commemorate the great Norman patrons of Tewkesbury including one to Hugh Despenser, hanged in 1325 for his association with the doomed King Edward II. Another notable figure buried in the abbey (in 1478) was the Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV, said to have drowned in a butt of malmsey. A decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses was fought near the town in 1471 and marked the final victory of the Yorkists (under Edward IV) over the Lancastrians. |
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Tewkesbury Borough Council The Town Council is the local authority for the Town. It comprises sixteen members elected to represent the affairs of the four wards of the town and has an office in the Town Hall on the High Street. Tewkesbury Town Council |
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