Tewksbury
The Lords of Tewkesbury by Cynthia Brown Part 1 It is known from the Register that the noble Dukes Oddo and Doddo founded a monastery in 715 on their lands near the Severn, seven miles from Gloucester. They were said to live in the time of the Kings Ethelred and Ethelbald, and they were buried in Pershore in 725. Their brother, Almeric, was buried in ‘a little chapel at Deerhurst’. In the seventeenth century a stone was dug up at Deerhurst,…