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Tewkesbury is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook. It gives its name to the Borough of Tewkesbury, of which the town is the second largest settlement.
The name Tewkesbury comes from Theoc, the name of a Saxon who founded a hermitage there in the 7th century, and in the Old English tongue was called Theocsbury. An erroneous derivation from Theotokos enjoyed currency in the monastic period of the town's history.
Tewkesbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 recreation by Laurence Robertson, a Conservative.
Usage examples of "tewkesbury".
It was because you thought you saw Lola Flanders in Tewkesbury that we're here.
There was obviously more to it than just a girl in Tewkesbury, but time was on my side.
In the early hours of the evening Lord Tewkesbury walked his sons to the entrance of the maze and told them that, if they wished, they could go inside to play.
Behind Lord Tewkesbury the close-cropped lawn rolled on like a sea of silver.
But when he reached it he did not turn left towards Tewkesbury and the roads that led homeward, but right, towards Cirencester.