I lived and worked there a long time ago (Tewkesbury in general)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Tewkesbury in general
Date:	02/02/05 (93 review reads)
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Advantages: nice town

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Looking for something to write about while my husband watching football I came across the Tewkesbury category. Many years ago I lived, worked and became pregnant in Tewkesbury.
This town has I believed changed little since those days.

Tewkesbury is a small town at the point where the rivers Avon and Severn meet. It is a long thin town sandwiched between the river and the M5.

This town has many timbered buildings mostly in the high street. A Benedictine Abbey built as a monastery at the end of the 11c is the pride of the town.
Since 1967 Tewkesbury has been a conservation area. So still has an air of an old town

The town has a shoe shop, a children’s clothes shop, a bicycle repair shop (while we lived there we owned a tandem and cycled the surrounding countryside.) a butchers, a chocolate shop, jewellers, a fishing tackle shop and an assortment of other useful shops.
There was, still is I think an old bookshop stocking old books.
I seem to remember a small shopping precinct with a Tesco’s.

Several tea shops restaurants and pubs / hotels are in Tewkesbury so you wont go hungry or thirsty.

There are many pretty walks along the river. Tewkesbury would be a good place to holiday it is nr Cheltenham and would be a god place to explore the Cotswolds and the Severn valley from.
We lived in Tewkesbury just after we got married I working at a children’s home my husband doing his P.G.C.E.
We lived in a flat in Mitton manor a beautiful building. We at that time were young poor and very much in love (still are really) My first baby Lucy was conceived in the manor sadly she only lived one day We left Tewkesbury just as my husband finished his teaching cert we only lived there about 6 or 7 months but I remember it as a beautiful town. Thanks for reading I relived some memories there

Summary: A small town in gloucestershire