Tredington, Gloucestershire
| Tredington | |
 St. John the Baptist's church, Tredington |
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  Tredington Tredington shown within Gloucestershire | |
| OS grid reference | SO903294 |
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| Civil parish | Stoke Orchard |
| District | Tewkesbury Borough |
| Shire county | Gloucestershire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Tewkesbury |
| Postcode district | GL20 |
| Dialling code | 01684 |
| Police | Gloucestershire |
| Fire | Gloucestershire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Tewkesbury |
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Tredington is a small village in the parish of Stoke Orchard near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England. The village has a church and a school but no pubs or shops.[citation needed]
The little church of St John the Baptist in Tredington is known for its wooden tower, a twelfth-century architectural plan, medieval stone benches, and the fossil of an ichthyosaurus displayed upon the floor of its porch.[citation needed] The steps, base and shaft of the churchyard cross are fourteenth century; the cross is modern.[1]
History
The village was a member of the Confraternity of Burton Lazars, a mediaeval order devoted to the care of lepers, near Melton Mowbray.[2] The father of the musician Thomas Tomkins was incumbent of the church from 1594 to 1609.[3]
In 1935 the parish of Tredington was merged with Stoke Orchard.[4]
Education
The village school opened in 1880, [5] and is located half way between Tredington and Stoke Orchard in order to serve both communities. Tredington Community Primary School, as it is now known, is a tiny school serving (at least) the villages of Tredington, Stoke Orchard, Elmstone-Hardwicke and Uckington. In 2005 it had 61 students aged 4-11. [6] Most children leaving this school move on to Cleeve School in Bishop's Cleeve, an establishment with a larger population (over 1000 pupils) than the villages served by Tredington School.
References
- ↑ Mark Child, "Discovering Churches and Churchyards", Shire Discovering Series 298, Osprey Publishing, 2008, ISBN 0-7478-0659-4, p.233
- ↑ David Marcombe, "The confraternity seals of Burton Lazars Hospital and a newly discovered matrix from Robertsbridge, Sussex", Leic. Arch. Sept 2002
- ↑ Anthony Boden, "Thomas Tomkins: the last Elizabethan", Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005, ISBN 0-7546-5118-5, p.44
- ↑ Christopher Robin Elrington, N. M. Herbert, University of London. Institute of Historical Research (1968). William Page, ed. History of the county of Gloucester: Victoria history of the counties of England: Volume 8 of The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester. A. Constable and company, limited. p. 234.
- ↑ Parishes: Tredington'. A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 8 (1968), pp. 228-236. Date accessed: 18 February 2012
- ↑ Tredington Community Primary School. OFSTED Inspection Report. 1 October 2008.