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. During the Anarchy of the 12th century, a motte-and-bailey castle was erected in the very early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the specific site of this is unidentified;. It has been suggested nevertheless, 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 other lawlessness, caused partly by hardship. In an effort to make money, regional individuals grew tobacco as a cash crop, regardless of this practice having actually been outlawed considering that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out in on a minimum of one event to ruin the illegal plant. In Winchcombe and the immediate location can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was just one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain because of a phial possessed by the monks stated to contain the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the former Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the community is kept in mind for its grotesques.