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 recommended however, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for livestock rustling as well as other lawlessness, caused partially by poverty. In an attempt to work, local people grew cigarette as a cash crop, regardless of this technique having been disallowed considering that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent know at the very least one event to ruin the prohibited crop. In Winchcombe as well as the immediate vicinity can be found Sudeley Castle as well as the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was just one of the major centres of expeditions in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks said to include the Blood of Christ. There is absolutely nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is kept in mind for its grotesques.
