Tewkesbury

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Introducing Tewkesbury

Crooked half-timbered houses, buckled roof lines and narrow alleyways lined with medieval buildings give Tudor-heavy Tewkesbury a higgledy-piggledy charm. There’s also a lovely riverside area with ancient passageways leading up to Church St, where you’ll find the town’s most glorious building, the magnificent medieval abbey church.

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The tourist office (295027; www.tewkesburybc.gov.uk; 64 Barton St; 9.30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 10-4pm Sun) is housed in a 15th-century timber-framed house, which is also home to a small museum displaying finds from Roman and medieval times.

Each year at the end of May Tewkesbury celebrates the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling competition, a 200-year-old tradition that sees locals running, tumbling and sliding down a local hill in pursuit of a seven-pound block of Double Gloucester cheese. For the truly committed there is also an uphill competition.

Last updated: Feb 17, 2009

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  1. Fwoggie avatar
    Flooding

    by Fwoggie 24 July 2007

    Dunno what you're talking about, perfectly fine here in Birmingham (despite what the BBC would have you believe). Mind you I'd give Glouces…
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    UK Weather

    by wendy the wanderer 23 July 2007

    Ah yes, the US media...

    we're used to slight chaos here, things carry on as usual... guess you didnt get the video shots of the…

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