Population 906 (2011) | OS grid reference SO869295 | |
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Deerhurst is a village near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England on the east bank of the River Severn. The Royal Mail postcode begins GL19.
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According to legend, the village was once the home of a dragon, said to have been swept in on the River Severn.
Anglo Saxon church & chapel
Deerhurst has an Anglo Saxon partly 10th century monastic building still standing, St Mary's Priory Church. It is notable among Anglo-Saxon buildings for the many features of the period which can be observed. Remarkably, there is a second important Anglo-Saxon building in the village, Odda's Chapel, a Saxon church, lying about 200 yards south-west of the church. An inscription dates this precisely to the reign of King Edward the Confessor.
Riverside setting
The village suffered badly from the floods of 2007 and local residents were seen on the local BBC news network, Midlands Today. Pictures of the floods can be seen at the Flooding Blog.
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The title of "Viscount Deerhurst" was created as a subsidiary title to the earldom of Coventry (creation of 1697) and is held by the Coventry family of Croome Court.