WHAT'S ON | TETBURY
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Hookshouse Pottery near Tetbury - NGS - 28th May - 5th June
Hookshouse Pottery about two and half miles from Tetbury. Garden has intimate corners, borders, shrubs, woodland glade and water garden (unfenced). Kitchen garden with orchard. Pottery, art and craft exhibition. Wheelchair access to main features, refreshments and dogs on leads welcome. Open 11am-6pm Admission £2.50 Child Free.
Exhibition at Hookshouse Pottery - 28th May - 5th June
'Labours of Love' Open daily 11am to 6pm. Garden open for NGS charities. Teas. Plant sales. The exhibition includes pots, paintings, prints and indoor and outdoor work in wood, glass, textiles and forged iron. For map and full list of exhibitors visit www.hookshousepottery.co.uk or phone 01666 880297 for more information.
Beaufort Polo Club - Westonbirt - 1st June - 30th June
Matches throughout the month Tel: 01666 880510 www.beaufortpoloclub.co.uk
The Yellow-Lighted Book Festival - 2nd June - 12th June
The Yellow-Lighted Book Festival is back for a second year. More than 50 authors, artists and illustrators coming to Nailsworth and Tetbury. Refreshments are included in the price of all tickets. Book at The Yellow-Lighted Bookshops, 21 Church St, Tetbury GL8 8JG (01666-500221) 17 Fountain St, Nailsworth GL6 0BL (01453-832555) For more information visit www.yellow-lightedbookfestival.co.uk
Concert at Church of the Holy Cross Sherston - 3rd June
Music for Awhile, Bach and his circle. The programme will include arias for tenor and obligato instruments from Bach's secular and sacred cantatas. 7.30pm - Tickets £15 (includes programme and interval drink) Tel: 01666 503189/840469/840375
Open Garden - Ozleworth Estate - 5th June
Ozleworth Garden near Wotton under Edge open 1pm - 4pm in aid of WellChild. Refreshments, Farmer's market, music, face painting and much more. Sorry no dogs, Entry £4 on day under 14s Free, £3 if you book online www.wellchild.org.uk Walk the estate, registration at 11am for 11.30am start, the undulating walk will be around four miles.
Westonbirt School Gardens - 5th June
Westonbirt School Gardens near Tetbury combine a delightful mixture of formal and informal features. An extensive terraced pleasure garden, Italinate walled gardens, water features, statuary, a grotto and wooded walk to the lake. Open 2pm-5pm Entrance £5, under 16s Free. Self-service refreshments offered in the Camellia House. Enquiries Tel: 01666 880333
Tetbury & District Footpath Group - 7th June
Horsley to Binley Farm and return by different route. Moderate. 4.5mls. 2pm start. Meet at free long stay Station car park.
Taize in Tetbury - 9th June
You are welcome to this candlelight service of song and prayer at St Marys' Church, Tetbury at 8pm.
Organ Recital in St Marys Church Tetbury - 11th June
By Robin Baggs to celebrate 20 years of the Alison Parkhouse Organ Scholarship. To include works by Bach, de Grigny, Liszt and Lefebure-Wely. 6pm Admission free, retiring collection for Scholarship funds. Drinks afterwards.
Hodges Barn, Shipton Moyne - NGS - 12th June - 13th June
Hodges Barn, Shipton Moyne near Tetbury is a C15 dovecote converted to house, not open to public. Roses, clematis, vines and lots more create formatlity around house. Mixed shrub and herbaceous borders, woodland planted with spring bulbs. Open 2pm-6pm, Admission £5, Child Free. Wheelchair access to main features, dogs on leads welcome.
Live Music at The Priory Inn, Tetbury - 12th June
Juey is an acoustic country/folk solo artist - a beautifully distinctive voice and charming style that will leave you wanting more! Playing self-penned songs and old-timey country favourtites with her very own unique slant. www.myspace.com/jueymusic
Box Open Gardens near Minchinhampton - 12th June
2.00 - 6.00pm. Silver band, cream teas, plant sale, Art exhibition, flower display. Admission to event £4, children free. Car parking free. Profits to local charities. For more information visit www.box-village.com
Tetbury Evening W.I Open Meeting - 13th June
7.30pm. Dolphins Hall. Speaker Louis Atkinson "Fashion and the House of Dior" All welcome. £3.00
THE SPEAKER HAS CANCELLED DUE TO BEREAVMENT. There will be a normal WI meeting instead, visitors welcome.
Tetbury & District Footpath Group - 14th June
Chavenage Green to Tiltup End and return. Moderate 5.75 mls. 2pm start. Meet at free long stay Station car park.
Simple Minds Concert - Westonbirt Arboretum - 17th June
Simple Minds in concert with special guest James Walsh. Gates open 6 p.m. Starts 7-30 p.m. Tickets £35 plus £3 booking fee at Tetbury Tourist Information Centre 01666 503552.
Concert at Westonbirt School - 17th June
Westonbirt School near Tetbury has a summer evening of French and Englich music including Debussy, Poulec and Britten. Sopranos Grace Carter (Westobirt graduate music assistant) and up and coming French soprano Sophie Terrier. Admission £10 Tel: 01666 880333
Erasure - Westonbirt Arboretum - 18th June
After more than four years away from recording and live performance Erasure will be playing at Westonbirt Arboretum as part of their Total Pop Tour. Tickets from Tetbury TIC are £34.50 plus £3 booking fee. Concert starts at 7.30pm arena open at 6pm.
Cotswold Air Show - 18th June - 19th June
Held at Cotswold Airport, Kemble, this year it will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the legendary Hawker Hunter. The show will include a wider vintage jet theme. The 75th anniversary of the first Spitfire flight will be marked by at least three Spitfires being present. Modern military aircraft will be there and the return of the Red Arrows to their old home base. There will be stalls, trade stands and childrens entertainment. Tickets £19.50 (in advance) Child (6-16) £5 are available at Tetbury TIC Tel: 01666 503552
Antiques and Brocante Market - Tetbury - 18th June
Held in the Town Hall, Tetbury 10am - 4pm selling china, glass, treen, textiles, silver, books and more. Admission by voluntary contribution (50% to Cats Protection) Enquiries Tel: 01453 822042
Tim Pitman and Rebecca Robinson in Concert - 18th June
Held at Malmesbury Abbey an evening concert with Tim Pitman and Rebecca Robinson, a superb show not to be missed, 7.30pm. Tickets £15 to include a drink, available at Tetbury TIC Tel: 01666 503552
Beaufort Polo Club - Test Match and Country Fair - 18th June - 19th June
The polo International Test Match sees England play New Zealand, the second match see England Ladies play Young England Team. There is also the well established Country Fair with over 50 trade stands, top class displays and spectator events for the whole family.Adult £10, Child under 12 £5 under 5s Free, Family £25 (2 adults & 2 children) Tel: 01666 880510
Tetbury Hospital Summer Fete & Open Day - 18th June
Visit the hospital and see what goes on! Stalls, bouncy castle, refreshments and much more. 1pm - 4pm.
The Churches Conservation Trust Midsummer Tea Party - 18th June
11.30am-3.30pm, St Saviour's Church, New Church Street, Tetbury, Glos GL8 8DS. Tea and cake will be available all afternoon. Come along for a unique chance to eat cake and drink tea in a church, all for a good cause: keeping the churches alive and the roof on. For further details contact the regional office in Bristol tel 0117 9291766 or email Bristol@tcct.org.uk.
Concert, St Lawrence's Church, Didmarton - 18th June
Saturday 18 June at 7.30pm. Songs,duets,operatic arias by Mozart, Gounod, Donizetti, Faure, Offenbach & Schumann. Performed by Grace Carter & Sophie Terrier. Tickets £5 to include a glass of wine. 01454 238484/238550
Westonbirt Concert - Scouting for Girls - 19th June
Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury Summer Concert Scouting for Girls. Concert starts 7.30pm Car park opens 5pm Arena 6pm. Tickets £28 plus £3 booking fee from Tetbury TIC 01666 503552.
The Matara Meditative Gardens, Kingscote - NGS - 19th June
The Matara gardens at Kingscote, six miles from Tetbury are meditative gardens dedicated to the sybolic, spiritual and cultural role of trees. Open from 1pm, refreshments available. Admission £6, Child £3.
Tetbury & District Footpath Group - 21st June
Around Malmesbury Easy 2.5mls. 5.45pm at long stay Station car park. 6pm start at Malmesbury Long stay car park.
Bingo Night - 23rd June
Dolphins Hall. Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm start. In aid of Tetbury Cricket Club.
St Marys' School, Tetbury, Summer Fair - 25th June
Organised by the Parents' Association The Fair is open 12noon to 4pm. There will be Harry Jones (finalist of Live & Unsigned), Splashdance, silent auction, craft stalls, refreshments and much more.
Gift & Craft Fayre - Tetbury Market House - 25th June
Celebrating this beautiful town, we've an amazing array of gifts and crafts from the Cotswolds and neighbouring areas. Free admission, with any donations going to support "Hope for Tomorrow" - a Tetbury based Mobile Chemotherapy Unit Charity. Open 10am til 4pm.
Sherston Church Fete & Open Gardens - 25th June - 26th June
Church Fete in and around the church on Saturday @ 2pm. Stalls, children's activities and teas. Open Gardens on Saturday from 1-5pm and on Sunday from 2-5pm. £5 ticket to include tea and cake. Also on Sunday from 2.30-4pm try bellringing.
Westonbirt School House and Gardens - 26th June
Westonbirt School, House and Gardens near Tetbury. House built by Robert Holford and is one of the most distinguished and lavish houses of the Victorian era. The gardens combine a delightful mixture of formal and informal features. Open 11am-5pm Entrance £5, under 16s Free. Self-service refreshments offered in the Camellia House. Enquiries Tel: 01666 880333
Concert - 26th June
Nicola Clark comic chanteuse, Heather Bristow blue-grass diva, Terry Helyar golden throated lounge lizard, together for one night only in Tetbury Town Hall 7.00 for 7.30 start. Tickets £5.00 at Daniel Bristow Violins, 01666 503946 or 01666 502787. Book early - numbers limited!
Tetbury in Bloom Open Gardens Day - 26th June
Nine gardens around the town open for visitors. £5.00 on entry to any gardens. More details and map on Tetbury in Bloom website www.tetburyinbloom.org.uk or ring Ange Morrissey on 01666 505723. Sorry no dogs.
Exhibition - Paintings by Nicola Clark - 27th June - 28th June
Tetbury Town Hall 10 - 5pm. Free entry.
Tetbury & District Civic Society Day Visit to Bridgnorth & Bewdley - 28th June
A day visit to Bridgnorth, Bewdley and the Severn Railway. Depart from the Chipping Car Park, Tetbury. For more information telephone Robin Levin 01666 500153.
Tetbury & District Footpath Group - 28th June
Short walk around Selsley Common. Wild flowers and good views. Easy 2mls. Meet at long stay Station car park.
TETBURY FAVOURITES...
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Every Wednesday and Saturday in and under the Market House
Thursdays new Farmers' Market and Crafts.
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TOURIST INFORMATION
Visit us for accommodation, events, attractions and ticket sales, both locally and throughout the Cotswolds. You can also book your National Express tickets with us.
Open 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. (Winter opening)
Monday to Saturday
(Closed Sun & bank holidays)
33, Church Street, GL8 8JG
01666 503552
TICKETS ON SALE
BRISTOL ENSEMBLE NAILSWORTH TEATIME CONCERTS
Sunday 5th February at 3pm
Sunday 4th March at 3pm
Tickets £9 (in advance)
Under 18's £1 per concert
WESTONBIRT ARBORETUM CONCERTS 2012
Friday 22nd June - Will Young tickets £35 + £3 booking fee
Saturday 23rd June - Plan B tickets £32 + £3 booking fee
Saturday 2ist July - Alfie Boe tickets £35.50 + £3 booking fee
Sunday 22nd July - Steps tickets £36 + £3 booking fee
Gates Open 6pm, Concerts start at 7.30pm
