Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold community in the neighborhood authority district 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 however, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was kept in mind for livestock rustling and also various other lawlessness, triggered in part by hardship. In an effort to make money, local people grew tobacco as a cash crop, regardless of this practice having actually been outlawed given that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out in on at least one celebration to destroy the unlawful crop. In Winchcombe as well as the prompt area can be found Sudeley Castle and also the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was among the primary centres of pilgrimages in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks claimed to consist of the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the community is kept in mind for its grotesques.
