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Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Tewkesbury 2022
Pathways to Tewkesbury Abbey
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 26th 2022
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Tewkesbury 2022
The Friends Burial Ground, Tewkesbury
It is reputed to have been in use since 1660. There are references in 1670 and 1677 to an adjacent Quaker meeting-place, occupying ‘three messuages in St Mary’s Street’. Two of these cottages (timber-framed) still exist, and as “16 and 18 St Mary’s Lane” are Grade II Listed Buildings – see the British Listed Buildings website [...]
Comments Off CherryPie on Jul 19th 2022
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Tewkesbury 2022
Tewkesbury – Day One
A friend suggested that we get together to visit Tewkesbury Medieval Fair which commemorates the Battle of Tewkesbury with re-enactments of the battle that took place there in 1471. Because different activities were taking place on the two days of the festival. Mr C and I decided to turn it into a mini break, meeting [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2022
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Malvern 2021
Tewkesbury Abbey
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2021
For our last breakfast, I opted for the Danish Pastry selection, naughty but nice. We cleared the room and checked out then Mr C retrieved the car and loaded it with our bags before we set off to the nearby Chedworth Roman Villa. I have a childhood memory of visiting the villa on a school [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 4th 2021
After breakfast we set off on a walking tour around Cirencester that was based on the recommendations in the information pack the hotel had provided us with. Our first port of call was the Church of St John the Baptist which is situated in the market square. We walked around the burial ground before entering [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 3rd 2021
After breakfast we checked out of our hotel and drove to Stourhead House & Gardens in glorious sunshine. We signed in at the National Trust reception area before heading through to the house and gardens. It was around 20 years since our previous visit and it was our first visit to the house, which contains [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 28th 2021
