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. 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 precise 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 noted for livestock rustling and also other lawlessness, caused partially by poverty. In an effort to earn money, regional people expanded cigarette as a cash crop, regardless of this practice having actually been forbidden because the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out in on a minimum of one celebration to ruin the illegal crop. In Winchcombe and also the prompt vicinity can be found Sudeley Castle as well as the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was just one of the major centres of trips in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks said to consist of the Blood of Christ. There is absolutely nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the community is noted for its grotesques.
