Tewkesbury Town Centre

Summary

A small Gloucestershire town at the confluence of the Severn and Avon — a medieval street pattern with Tudor and medieval buildings, the Tewkesbury Abbey dominating, and the characteristic flood plain setting.

About this location

Tewkesbury is at the confluence of the Severn and Avon rivers in the Gloucestershire vale, and is built on slightly elevated ground above the surrounding flood plains. The town centre has a well-preserved medieval and Tudor street pattern — Church Street, High Street, and Barton Street give three parallel medieval streets with surviving timber-framed buildings, some dating from the 15th century. The Tewkesbury Abbey (12th century Norman, with a significant Victorian interior) occupies a substantial site at the north end of the town.

The alleyways and lanes off the main streets — Abbey Terrace, Mill Street — give a smaller-scale medieval domestic environment. The town floods periodically; the visual of a flooded Tewkesbury town centre is specific and dramatic (the 2007 flood reached historic levels). The River Avon at the town’s southern edge gives a riverside walk.

For productions, Tewkesbury gives a Gloucestershire market town interior — small, walkable, medieval-plan, with the abbey as visual anchor. The town is less tourist-saturated than comparable Cotswold towns and retains a working commercial character. Tewkesbury Borough Council handles filming permits.