Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold community in the regional 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 very early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, second Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the specific site of this is unidentified;. It has been recommended nevertheless, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was kept in mind for livestock rustling and other lawlessness, created in part by hardship. In an attempt to work, neighborhood individuals grew cigarette as a cash crop, in spite of this method having been forbidden given that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out in on a minimum of one occasion to ruin the prohibited plant. In Winchcombe as well as the instant vicinity can be located Sudeley Castle and also the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was just one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks stated 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 town is kept in mind for its grotesques.
