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, second Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the exact site of this is unidentified;. It has actually been recommended nonetheless, 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, created partially by poverty. In an attempt to make money, neighborhood people expanded cigarette as a cash crop, in spite of this method having been banned since the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out know a minimum of one event to ruin the prohibited crop. In Winchcombe as well as the instant area can be found Sudeley Castle and also the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was just one of the major centres of expeditions in Britain as a result of a phial had by the monks claimed to contain the Blood of Christ. There is absolutely nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the community is noted for its grotesques.