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Evesham is best known as the site of the Battle of Evesham 1265 in which the future Edward I defeated and killed (very nastily!) Simon de Montfort (popularly known as the Founder of Parliament). | |
| Nestling in the valley of the Avon (Shakespeare's Avon) and River Severn, the Vale of Evesham is a very fertile horticultural 'garden of Eden' with a long history of asparagus, soft fruit and a mild climate. | ||
| The Evesham Hotel, formely known as the Mansion House, started life in 1540 as a Tudor farmhouse with 100 acres. In 1810 it was modernised. | ||
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It became a hotel in 1906, but did not achieve its national, nay international, or even universal notoriety, until 1975 when the Jenkinson family bought it. The hotel, now known as the Evesham Hotel, was progressively modernised and extended in 1982 and 1990 - this process continues as long as our bank manager breathes!! |