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Evesham

From LGBT History Project
The Almonry, originally part of Evesham Abbey

Evesham is a market town in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire. it is situated on a bend of the River Avon, in the Vale of Evesham. Evesham Abbey, founded 701, became possibly the largest Abbey in England, but little of it now remains apart from the bell tower.

LGBT history

William Sidney Holtom lived in Evesham as a man, until discovered to be a woman on being admitted to hospital.