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Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Eng.
Winchcombe
England, United Kingdom
Winchcombe, village (parish), Tewkesbury borough, administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, England. It is situated on the River Isbourne, near the western edge of the Cotswolds.
The site was first settled when Cenwulf, king of Mercia (reigned 796β821), founded a Benedictine abbey there in the 8th century; it was twice rebuilt before the dissolution of the monasteries (1536β38). The parish church of St. Peter, standing on the site of a former church, is Perpendicular in style. The Cistercian abbey (1246) at Hailes, now a National Trust property, is 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast. Belas Knap, an important restored Stone Age burial mound, lies southeast. Pop. (2001) 4,379; (2011) 4,538.
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