Rich Pickings ; Place Known As the Fruit Bowl of the Midlands, Evesham in Worcestershire has Become an Attractive Base for Buyers Looking for Quality of Life As Well As Good Commuting.

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"The towne of Evesham is meetly large and well builded of tymbre. . . The market is very celebrate."

John Leland, Tudor traveller and antiquary to the King was here before his master's despicable assault on the abbey in 1540, vandalism which changed the town's history.

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Rich Pickings ; Place Known As the Fruit Bowl of the Midlands, Evesham in Worcestershire has Become an Attractive Base for Buyers Looking for Quality of Life As Well As Good Commuting.

Depending on which historian one reads, Evesham might have been another Oxford or Cambridge. Left intact, its powerful abbey would have rivalled St Paul's Cathedral in size.

It was ranked third in the whole country for its wealth and influence until a greedy, overweight despot cut short the heritage of 800 years.

"One by one the monks filed out of their historic home in solemn procession, their heads bent beneath ...

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