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Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the Local Authority District of Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, England. Its population is aprox. 4,500. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The British Isles consist of Great Britain, Ireland (usually) and a number of much smaller surrounding islands. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1585x1975, 1375 KB) Summary Photographer: User:Ballista Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1585x1975, 1375 KB) Summary Photographer: User:Ballista Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... The Cotswolds is the name given to a range of hills in central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, a hilly area reaching over 300 m or 1000 feet. ... Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked...

During the Anglo-Saxon period, it was a chief city of Mercia, the others being Lichfield and Tamworth. The Belas Knap long barrow is far older, having been constructed in about 3000 BC. St. Kenelm is supposed to be buried here. Notable buildings near the town include Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey. There is nothing left of the now-vanished Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's church in the centre of the town is famous for its grotesques. The Anglo-Saxons refers collectively to the groups of Germanic tribes who achieved dominance in southern Britain from the mid-5th century, forming the basis for the modern English nation. ... The general location of Mercia, along with the other peoples of Britain around the year 600. ... The West Front of Lichfield Cathedral, June 2005 Lichfield is a small city and civil parish in Staffordshire, 110 miles northwest of London and 14 miles north of Birmingham. ... Tamworth town centre Map sources for Tamworth at grid reference SK2203 Tamworth is a historic town and local government district in Staffordshire England, located 17 miles (25 km) north-east from the city of Birmingham. ... Belas Knap is a neolithic long barrow, situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham and Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. ... A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the Neolithic period. ... (31st century BC - 30th century BC - 29th century BC - other centuries) (4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC) Events 2925 - 2776 BC - First Dynasty wars in Egypt 2900 BC - Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia. ... St. ... The knot garden of Sudeley Castle Sudeley Castle is near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. ... Hailes Abbey is two miles northeast of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. ... Winchcombe Abbey is a now-vanished Benedictine abbey in Winchcombe, once the capital of Mercia. ... According to tradition, Peter was crucified upside-down, as shown in this painting by Caravaggio. ...

For a while in the 11th century, the town was the county town of the county of Winchcombeshire. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ... A county town is the capital of a county in Ireland or the United Kingdom. ... Winchcombeshire was a historic county in the South West of England in the 10th and 11th centuries. ...

Winchcombe was once served by a railway line, a relative latecomer in British railway history, opened in the early 1900s by the Great Western Railway and running from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham, part of a main line from Birmingham to the South West and South Wales. Winchcombe station along with almost all others on this section closed in 1960; through passenger services continued until 1968, and freight until 1976 when a derailment at Broadway damaged the line. It was decided not to bring the section back into use and by the early 1980s it had been dismantled. The stretch between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse, including Winchcombe, has since been reconstructed and reopened as a heritage railway called the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. A new station has been erected at Winchcombe, on its original site, the building being the former station at Monmouth (Troy). Nearby is the 693 yard Greet Tunnel, the second longest on any preserved line in Britain.

In April 2005, Winchcombe launched its very own community radio station (link at the bottom) and broadcasts for 4 days a year, with programmes being created during the spaces between broadcasts. Its 3rd and most recent broadcast was on the 21st and 22nd of April 2006, with the next one in October.

The Cotswold Way is a long-distance footpath, running along the escarpment of the Cotswold Hills in England. ... For other uses, see Bath (disambiguation). ... Location within the British Isles. ... Cheltenham (or Cheltenham Spa) is a spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, England, near Gloucester and Cirencester. ... Broadway, Worcestershire Broadway is a Cotswold village in Worcestershire, England. ...

Location

The parish church is located at Ordnance Survey mapping six-figure grid reference SP 023283 Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. ...

External links

• Winchcombe website - maintained by Winchcombe Business Forum
• Radio Winchcombe Community Radio for Winchcombe
• Winchcombe community information (unofficial website)
• Winchcombe Parish (Church of England)
• Winchcombe Abbey Primary School
• Winchcombe School (secondary school, a Specialist Science School)