Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the neighborhood authority area of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Its population according to the 2011 census was 4,538. During the Anarchy of the 12th century, a motte-and-bailey castle was erected in the early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the exact 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 as well as various other lawlessness, caused partly by hardship. In an attempt to work, neighborhood individuals grew tobacco as a cash crop, in spite of this practice having been outlawed since the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out in on a minimum of one event to ruin the unlawful plant. In Winchcombe and also the immediate vicinity can be discovered Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was just one of the major centres of pilgrimages in Britain due to a phial had by the monks claimed to include the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the former Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the community is noted for its grotesques.
