Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the regional authority area of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Its population according to the 2011 census was 4,538. Throughout the Anarchy of the 12th century, a motte-and-bailey castle was erected in the very early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the exact site of this is unidentified;. It has been recommended however, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for livestock rustling and also various other lawlessness, triggered partly by hardship. In an attempt to earn money, regional individuals expanded cigarette as a cash crop, despite this practice having been disallowed given that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent in on at the very least one event to ruin the unlawful crop. In Winchcombe as well as the prompt area can be discovered Sudeley Castle and also the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain as a result of a phial possessed by the monks claimed to consist of the Blood of Christ. There is absolutely nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is noted for its grotesques.
