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Richard was at Tewkesbury…so was Warwick’s ghost….!

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Well, it seems that Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, was so keen to launch into battle that he even came back from the dead! Yes, indeed. Just ask the folks at the new Tewkesbury Park country house and golf course. Warwick may have died at Barnet, but hey, he fought at the Battle of Tewkesbury as well. Edward IV, George of Clarence and Richard of Gloucester, would have done double takes, for sure! It might even have put them off their tactics.

Tewkesbury Park has already been informed of this error, but still that little Kingmaking spectre squeezes in. I suppose you just can’t keep a good ghost down.

http://www.incentivetravel.co.uk/destination-reports/itcm-slept-here/33175-tewkesbury-park-makes-a-grand-entrance-on-the-mice-scene

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