Tetbury

Here is some more from last Thursday with sister Kirsty and husband David and sister Sue. After visiting Newark Park and having lunch with Sawbill, we took a little detour on our way back to Yate via Tetbury.

Tetbury is renowned for its royal connections. Garden tours of HIGHGROVE, the nearby home of HRH Prince of Wales, can be booked online and in the HIGHGROVE SHOP. which is centrally located in the town. HRH Princess Anne also lives nearby at GATCOMBE ESTATE. 

While the girls visited the shops (especially the Highgrove shop). David and I did a little tour of the sights of the town. 

Here are a few of my photos...

The Grade I listed Market House.

There were several displays of early daffodils. Lovely!

Inside St. Marys' Church*. It is very tall and has a massive spire - the tower is 57m high. Someone was practising the organs when I went in. The present building dates from 1781.

*Note the apostrophe - it is the Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Mary Magdalen

Sadly, the House of Cheese is now defunct. It is an ex-Cheese shop. It is no more, It has gone to meet it's maker... oh hang on. wrong Monty Python sketch. Maybe Mr. Wensleydale has retired.

We descended to the old Railway station. This is the goods shed, now an Arts Centre. The last steam train left here in 1959.

Then it was up the Chipping Steps back to the Car Park. CHIPPING STEPS was a former 

entrance to the town. The very old buildings that overlook the three flights of steep steps were probably 

weavers' cottages. Past the small graveyard at the foot of the steps, a path runs down to the site of the cattle market and across the MILLENNIUM GREEN. where scolds and rogue traders were once  punished on a ducking stool, to the GOODS SHED and RAIL LANDS

Well that was a pleasant hour at the end of the afternoon.

You can see more of my photos here on Flickr.