Winchcombe is a Cotswold community in the neighborhood 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, second Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the specific site of this is unknown;. It has actually been recommended nonetheless, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was kept in mind for cattle rustling and various other lawlessness, created partly by poverty. In an effort to work, local people expanded cigarette as a cash crop, despite this technique having been banned because the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out in on a minimum of one occasion to destroy the prohibited plant. In Winchcombe and also the instant location can be located Sudeley Castle as well as the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the primary centres of expeditions in Britain due to a phial had by the monks claimed 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 community is kept in mind for its grotesques.