# Tewkesbury Guide - Historic Riverside Market Town

> Discover Tewkesbury, a medieval market town where the Severn and Avon meet, with its Abbey, museums, half-timbered Tudor buildings and ideas for what to see.

URL: https://cotswolds.info/places/tewkesbury.shtml  
Section: Villages & Towns  
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (51.993, -2.157)  
Last updated: 2007-10-02

Tewkesbury Events

Tewkesbury Heritage Trail

Tewkesbury Museums

Tewkesbury Abbey

Located in the County
of Gloucestershire

North Western edge
of the Cotswolds

14 miles from Broadway
8 miles from Cheltenham

2 miles from junction 9
M5 Motorway

Tewkesbury - The Historic Town of Tewkesbury where time stood still for 150 years ensuring the preservation of its medieval character and layout to the present day. Tewkesbury is now a thriving town and at the same time is a living museum of architecture and social history spanning over 500 years. The town has such a perfectly preserved medieval character that in 1964 The Council of British Archaeology listed it amongst 57 towns "so splendid and so precious that the ultimate responsibility for them should be of national concern".

For - Accommodation in and around Tewkesbury

For - Places to Eat in and around Tewkesbury

For - Events and 'What to Do' in and around Tewkesbury

![Tewkesbury Riverside Market Town](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/banner.jpg)

Tewkesbury is an ancient settlement at the meeting of the rivers Severn and Avon. The surrounding rivers and flood plain have prevented the old town from expanding so that its long thin profile has hardly altered since the middle ages. Tewkesbury presents one of the best medieval townscapes in England with its fine half-timbered Tudor buildings, overhanging upperstoreys and ornately carved doorways.

### ![Tewkesburyalleyway](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/tewkesburyalleyway1.jpg)

### What to See

Tewkesbury Abbey, John Moore Museum and Little Museum, The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury Town Museum, The Battle Trail Walk, Tewkesbury Alleyways, and the Heritage Trail.

FOR INFORMATION ON TEWKESBURY TOWN
2006 EVENTS

FOR INFORMATION ON THE TEWKESBURY
HERITAGE TRAIL

FOR INFORMATION ON THE TEWKESBURY
MUSEUMS AND JOHN MOORE

FOR TOURIST INFORMATION ON
TEWKESBURY ABBEY

![Tewkesburyalleyway](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/tewkesburyalleyway2.jpg)

![Tewkesburyhighstreet](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/tewkesburyhighstreet.jpg)

![Tewkesburyabbey](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/tewkesburyabbey.jpg)

High Street showing Cross House

Tewkesbury Abbey

### Shopping

Tewkesbury offers a good selection of specialty shops, antique shops, tea and coffee shops, inns and pubs and restaurants.

![Church Street, Tewkesbury](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/tewkesburystreet.jpg)

An open air Market is held twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The main shopping areas are on High Street, Church Street and Barton Street.

### Leisure

Golf, tennis, horse riding , cycling and bike hire, bowling, angling are all available nearby.

Boating Trips are available daily, boat hire is available, and also boat mooring.

![Bowling](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/bowling.jpg)

![Boating](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/boating.jpg)

![Battle](https://cotswolds.info/images/tewkesbury/battle.jpg)

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## Tewkesbury - the Historic Medieval Riverside Market Town

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