Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town 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 exact site of this is unknown;. It has actually been recommended nevertheless, 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, caused partly by poverty. In an attempt to earn a living, regional individuals expanded tobacco as a cash crop, regardless of this technique having been forbidden considering that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out know at the very least one occasion to destroy the unlawful crop. In Winchcombe and the immediate location can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the major centres of pilgrimages in Britain because of a phial possessed by the monks claimed to have the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the former Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is kept in mind for its grotesques.