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|text='''Winchcombe''' is a Cotswold town in [[Gloucestershire]] and home to some four and a half thousand souls. Today Winchcombe is a modest town, pretty and well appointed, on a hill and visited more for Sudeley Castle than for itself. In the tenth century though it was the county town of Winchcombeshire, a shire wiped from the map by Earl Eadric in the eleventh century. | |text='''Winchcombe''' is a Cotswold town in [[Gloucestershire]] and home to some four and a half thousand souls. Today Winchcombe is a modest town, pretty and well appointed, on a hill and visited more for Sudeley Castle than for itself. In the tenth century though it was the county town of Winchcombeshire, a shire wiped from the map by Earl Eadric in the eleventh century. | ||
In Winchcombe and the immediate vicinity can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks claimed contained the Blood of Christ. Nothing is left of Winchcombe Abbey today}}<noinclude> | In Winchcombe and the immediate vicinity can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks claimed contained the Blood of Christ. Nothing is left of Winchcombe Abbey today.}}<noinclude> | ||
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