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Vale of the Severn

Churchdown Hill and the Battle of Tewkesbury….

Jul 18, 2015

battles

Barnet, Berkeley Castle, Churchdown Hill, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, George Duke of Clarence, Gloucester, Iron Age, Jasper “Tudor”, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Sodbury Hill, St. Bartholomew’s, Tewkesbury, Vale of the Severn, Wales, Weymouth

(Photograph from http://sulismanoeuvre.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-chosen-hill-church-scratchings.html) The Gloucestershire village in which I live, Churchdown, is down in the Vale of the Severn, at the foot of the Cotswolds. It is dominated by one of two outlier hills in the area, Churchdown (or Chosen) Hill and Robinswood Hill. Both are on the outskirts of the city of Gloucester.…