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The Tewkesbury Medieval Festival 2015

Jul 19, 2015

Events

Barnet, Bath, Bloody Meadow, Bristol, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, France, George Duke of Clarence, Gloucester, Gupshill Manor, Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou, photos, re-enactment, Richard of Warwick, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury Mediaeval Festival, Towton, Welsh Marches, Weymouth

I’ve been wanting to attend this festival for at least 20 years and finally everything came together this year and I was able to take my family with me for an orgy of medieval shopping, weaponry, costumes and merchandising followed by the re-enactment of the Battle of Tewkesbury on part of the original site…
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.…