X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Tewkesbury


Gloucestershire Victoria County History

The history of the parishes of Slaughter hundred, and the upper divisions of Tewkesbury and Westminster hundreds, all in the eastern part of the county.

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum

Traditionally both regiments recruited from Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas including Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, The Forest of Dean and from the city of Bristol.


Borchester

As the Archers is usually taken to "exist" in a region centred on Evesham and somewhere not too far from the Malvern Hills and the edge of the Cotswolds, Borchester could be connected to Broadway, Tewkesbury or Pershore.

Dudley Digges

In 1614 Digges was re-elected MP for Tewkesbury to the Addled Parliament.

Hicks-Beach

William Frederick Hicks-Beach (1841–1923), Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury 1916–1918

Little Malvern

Gloucestershire Airport located at Staverton, in the Borough of Tewkesbury near Malvern is a busy General Aviation airport used mainly for private charter and scheduled flights to destinations such as the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Mann, pilot training, and by the aircraft of emergency services.

Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington

He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1906 to 1916 and a board member at Lloyds Bank.

Morgan Philips Price

His father, William Edwin Price, was also a British MP, serving for the seat of Tewkesbury.

Patricia Shakesby

She currently lives in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and has written a play called The Lady of the Abbey, based on the life of the wife of Robert Fitzhamon who founded Tewkesbury Abbey.

Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

The main communities are Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Donnacona, Lac-Beauport, Neuville, Pont-Rouge, Shannon, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Saint-Raymond, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and Deschambault-Grondines.

Priday, Metford and Company Limited

The family link with milling in Gloucester goes back to 1860 (and before the inception of Priday Metford) because Director Francis Tring Pearce married Martha Allen, the daughter of Henry Allen and Mary Ann Charlotte Richardson (1845–1872) of Tewkesbury.

Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet

Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet, of Wytley (1637–1706), Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury 1673–1690

West Malvern

Gloucestershire Airport located at Staverton, in the Borough of Tewkesbury near Malvern is a busy general aviation airport used mainly for private charter and scheduled flights to destinations such as the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man, pilot training, and by the aircraft of emergency services.

William Dowdeswell

William Edward Dowdeswell (1841–1893), Conservative MP for Tewkesbury 1865–1866 and West Worcestershire 1866–1876

William Hicks-Beach

William Frederick Hicks-Beach (1841–1923), Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury 1916–1918


see also