Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold community in the local 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 exact 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 noted for cattle rustling and also various other lawlessness, caused in part by hardship. In an attempt to work, local people grew cigarette as a cash crop, regardless of this method having actually been forbidden considering that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out know at least one event to destroy the prohibited crop. In Winchcombe as well as the prompt area can be found Sudeley Castle as well as the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the primary centres of pilgrimages in Britain as a result of a phial possessed by the monks said 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 noted for its grotesques.
