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Flooding concerns over plans for 10,000 new homes near Tewkesbury • Dec. 3, 2024, 9:37 PM ET (BBC)

Tewkesbury, town (parish), Tewkesbury borough (district), administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, southwest-central England. It is situated at the confluence of the Rivers Severn and Avon (Upper, or Warwickshire, Avon). The town is the administrative centre for the borough. A small Benedictine abbey was founded in 715 on the site of the present Abbey Church of St. Mary’s. The later medieval abbey was consecrated in 1123 and rebuilt after a fire in 1178; considerable additions were made in the 15th century. At the time of the dissolution of the monasteries (1536–39), the choir, transepts, and square Norman tower of the ...(100 of 227 words)

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