Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold community 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, 2nd Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the specific site of this is unknown;. It has been suggested nevertheless, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for livestock rustling as well as various other lawlessness, created partly by poverty. In an effort to earn money, regional people expanded tobacco as a cash crop, in spite of this technique having actually been disallowed because the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out know at the very least one occasion to destroy the illegal plant. In Winchcombe as well as the instant area 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 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 town is kept in mind for its grotesques.