Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the local authority district of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Its population according to the 2011 census was 4,538. During 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 specific site of this is unidentified;. It has actually been recommended nevertheless, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for livestock rustling and also other lawlessness, created partly by hardship. In an attempt to work, neighborhood individuals grew tobacco as a cash crop, regardless of this method having actually been outlawed considering that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out in on at least one occasion to ruin the illegal crop. In Winchcombe as well as the prompt location can be discovered Sudeley Castle as well as the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain because of a phial possessed by the monks stated to have 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.
