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Monks Field Way, TEWKESBURY, GL20 5UE

Housing on Priors Park on a road off Despenser Road.

The site was hosting a miniature steam engine rally.

The slightly wilder eastern edge.

Currently with a carpet of daisies.

Looking southwards at the footpath junction along the path to the extensive housing estates east of the town centre. The trees on the hill hide the town cemetery.

That would be Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England, one of the Royals behind the decades of conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. She was present at The Battle of Tewkesbury which was fought over this area in 1471. Margaret was captured and her son the Prince of Wales, was killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou

This solid block has information plaques on all four faces. One lists the numerous charters granted to Tewkesbury since the Earls of Gloucester first in the twelfth century; one notes that Henry VIII's Dissolution of the abbey was prevented after the Burgesses of Tewkesbury bought it for £483; one marks the fact that these fields are known as the Vineyards, part of the battle of 1471; the last plaque stands as a memorial to the old Holme Castle, which used to exist in this area. Holme Castle was originally a Saxon residence of some stature and home to the local barony. It was destroyed by a fire in 1140 and rebuilt. However, that abode of the Earl of Gloucester and other lords was also lost by as early as the fourteenth century.

Brian Douglas SODEN Private 24107294 Royal Regiment of Wales. He was on mobile patrol in Brompton Street, Ardoyne Belfast Northern Ireland when he was shot by IRA sniper in the head on the 19 June 1972 aged 20 He was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital, but died later.