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The Borough of Tewkesbury is a local government district with borough status in Gloucestershire, England. The borough is named after its largest town, Tewkesbury where the council is based. The district also includes the town of Winchcombe and numerous villages including Bishops Cleeve , Ashchurch , Churchdown , Innsworth and Brockworth as well ...
The building, which was rebuilt in 1586, was arcaded on the ground floor so that markets could be held, with an assembly room on the first floor. [2] However, the location of the building impeded the traffic and so in the 1780s the local member of parliament , Sir William Codrington , offered to pay for a new municipal building further north on ...
In 1965, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, was enlarged by incorporating the then-new Mitton housing estate, on land previously in Bredon parish, Worcestershire, as part of the West Midland Counties Order. [4] The estate now forms part of the "Tewkesbury Town with Mitton" borough council ward, which also covers Tewkesbury town centre.
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It is a successor parish to the Tewkesbury Municipal Borough Council that existed prior to the reorganisation of English Local Government in April 1974. The Town Council in its original form was constituted by the Local Government (Successor Parishes) Order 1973, [ 1 ] where Tewkesbury Town is listed in Schedule Part 1.
Bishop's Cleeve is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. [2] The village lies at the foot of Cleeve Hill, the highest point in the Cotswolds. Bishop's Cleeve had a population of 10,612 [3] in 2011, which has increased to 14,068 in the 2021 Census.
The site is listed in the ‘Tewkesbury Borough Local Plan to 2011’, adopted March 2006, Appendix 3 'Nature Conservation',' as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS). [2] The site is owned and managed by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. It was held under lease from Tewkesbury Town Council for ten years from 1974. It was purchased by the Trust in 1984. [1]
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