Qualla: Tewkesbury https://qualla.com/tewkesbury en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tewkesbury https://qualla.com/tewkesbury Tewkesbury: Introduction https://qualla.com/tewkesbury/ Theoc was a Saxon hermit, the kind of man who in the seventh century walked away from the world to a quiet bend where two rivers met. He built a cell where the Severn and the Avon joined, and the place picked up his name - Theocsbury, the burgh of Theoc - which slid through Old English into Tewkesbury. A monastic legend later tried to give it a grander origin from Theotokos, the Greek title of the Virgin Mary, but the hermit's name has won out. The Abbey now stands roughly where his cell stood. The two rivers still meet roughly where they did fourteen hundred years ago. Everything else around them has changed and changed again, but the geography that drew Theoc in is exactly the geography that still draws everyone else.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/r/tewkesbury-wp/gcnr-tewkesbury-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tewkesbury: The Abbey https://qualla.com/tewkesbury/ The Normans consecrated Tewkesbury Abbey in 1121, and what they built has survived in a way few abbey churches have. When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, most great abbeys were torn apart for their stone. The townspeople of Tewkesbury bought theirs - they paid the king the ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/r/tewkesbury-wp/gcnr-tewkesbury-the-abbey.mp3 0:06 2 full Tewkesbury: Bloody Meadow https://qualla.com/tewkesbury/ On 4 May 1471, the Wars of the Roses fought one of its decisive battles in fields just south of the town. The Yorkist army under Edward IV caught the Lancastrian forces of Margaret of Anjou as they tried to cross the Severn. Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales and only son of ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/r/tewkesbury-wp/gcnr-tewkesbury-bloody-meadow.mp3 0:06 3 full Tewkesbury: The Black Bear and the Hop Pole https://qualla.com/tewkesbury/ Tewkesbury claims Gloucestershire's oldest public house in the Black Bear, dating to 1308. The pub closed in 2017 and looked finished. Then it was bought, renovated from 2019 to 2022, and reopened in 2023. Around the corner, the Royal Hop Pole Hotel on Church Street is mentioned ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/r/tewkesbury-wp/gcnr-tewkesbury-the-black-bear-and-the-hop-pole.mp3 0:06 4 full Tewkesbury: Where Two Rivers Meet https://qualla.com/tewkesbury/ Thomas Telford's Mythe Bridge over the Severn, opened in 1826, is a cast-iron span 170 feet long that still carries traffic on the western edge of town. King John's Bridge over the Avon, on the road from Gloucester to Worcester, was commissioned by King John in the late 12th cent...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/r/tewkesbury-wp/gcnr-tewkesbury-where-two-rivers-meet.mp3 0:06 5 full Tewkesbury: Shakespeare's Cousin and a Hermit's Memory https://qualla.com/tewkesbury/ Behind the Old Baptist Chapel, off Church Street, there is a small cemetery. The chapel is timber-framed and dates as a medieval hall house to the 1480s, converted to a Nonconformist meeting house sometime in the 17th century. Restored to its 1720 appearance, it now hosts cultura...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/r/tewkesbury-wp/gcnr-tewkesbury-shakespeares-cousin-and-a-hermits-memory.mp3 0:06 6 full