Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the local authority district 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 precise site of this is unidentified;. 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 livestock rustling as well as other lawlessness, caused partly by destitution. In an effort to work, local individuals grew tobacco as a cash crop, despite this method having actually been banned given that the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent in on at the very least one celebration to damage the prohibited plant. In Winchcombe and the instant vicinity can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was among the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks claimed to include the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the previous Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the community is noted for its grotesques.
