Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the neighborhood 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 early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the exact site of this is unknown;. It has actually been recommended however, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for cattle rustling and other lawlessness, created in part by destitution. In an attempt to earn a living, neighborhood people grew tobacco as a cash crop, regardless of this practice having been outlawed since the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent in on a minimum of one occasion to damage the prohibited plant. In Winchcombe and also the prompt vicinity can be located Sudeley Castle as well as the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain as a result 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.
