Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town 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 noted for livestock rustling and also other lawlessness, caused in part by hardship. In an attempt to make money, neighborhood people grew cigarette as a cash crop, in spite of this method having been forbidden because the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out know at least one celebration to ruin the illegal crop. In Winchcombe and also the instant area can be discovered Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was just one of the primary centres of expeditions in Britain because of 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 kept in mind for its grotesques.