Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold community 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, second Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the exact site of this is unknown;. It has been recommended nevertheless, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for cattle rustling and also various other lawlessness, triggered in part by hardship. In an effort to work, local people expanded tobacco as a cash crop, in spite of this technique having been forbidden since the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out know at least one occasion to destroy the prohibited plant. In Winchcombe and the prompt location can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain because of a phial had by the monks said to have 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 noted for its grotesques.
