Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the regional 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, second Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the exact site of this is unidentified;. It has actually been suggested nonetheless, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for livestock rustling and also various other lawlessness, triggered partly by hardship. In an attempt to work, local individuals expanded cigarette as a cash crop, regardless of this practice having been forbidden since the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out know at least one celebration to ruin the illegal plant. In Winchcombe as well as the instant vicinity can be located Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was just one of the primary centres of expeditions in Britain as a result of a phial possessed by the monks claimed to have the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is noted for its grotesques.
