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 early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the precise site of this is unidentified;. It has been suggested however, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for livestock rustling and also other lawlessness, caused in part by hardship. In an attempt to make money, neighborhood people grew tobacco as a cash crop, regardless of this method having actually been disallowed because the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent out in on a minimum of one celebration to ruin the prohibited plant. In Winchcombe as well as the prompt area can be discovered Sudeley Castle and also the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the major centres of expeditions in Britain because of a phial possessed by the monks said to consist of the Blood of Christ. There is absolutely nothing left of the former Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is noted for its grotesques.