Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold community 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 early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, second Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the precise site of this is unknown;. It has been suggested nonetheless, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was kept in mind for livestock rustling and various other lawlessness, caused partly by poverty. In an attempt to make money, local people expanded tobacco as a cash crop, regardless of this technique having been forbidden given that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent in on a minimum of one occasion to destroy the prohibited plant. In Winchcombe and the prompt vicinity can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of expeditions in Britain because of a phial possessed by the monks stated to contain the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is noted for its grotesques.
