[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Tewkesbury.

  • Tewkesbury (England). Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Tewkesbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH Area in Acres : 2,651 (including 96 acres of water). During the severe floods in March, 1947, the water increased to approximately 850 acres which was one-third of the area of the Borough. Population : (Registrar-General’s estimate, mid-1947), 4614. No. of inhabited houses (according to Rate Books, 31st De_ cember, 1947) : 1,433. Rateable Value : £27,971. Sum represented by a penny rate : £117. SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND CHIEF INDUSTRIES The Borough is the shopping centre for a scattered rural area and the casual observer might be surprised at the number and variety of the well-stocked attractive shops which line the main streets—particularly if seen on a quiet day. Seen again on a fort¬ nightly live-stock market-day, one might imagine it to be a county town of much greater proportions. There must be few people who have not become acquainted with Tewkesbury as visitors to the Vale of Evesham ; whilst ex¬ ploring the beauties of the Cotswolds and Malverns, or, through literature—for not a few have taken the town as a setting for novel, narration or poem. Situated at the confluence of the Rivers Severn and Avon, it is notable amongst anglers. Artists, students of architecture, motorists, campers and cyclists all find abundant interest in the town and its surroundings. The Abbey—one of the finest examples of Norman Architecture in the country—and the many beautiful examples of half-timbered buildings, Georgian, Elizabethan and Jacobean works, are adequate reward for the discerning artist or photographer.