Winchcombe (England)

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Name (Latin)
Winchcombe (England)
Other forms of name
nne Winchcombe (Gloucestershire)
Winchcomb (England)
Coordinates
-1.965 -1.965 51.955 51.955 (gooearth )
W0015800 W0015800 N0515700 N0515700 (geonames )
Associated country
Great Britain
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 152497142
Wikidata: Q1234937
Library of congress: n 84152831
OCoLC: oca01188854
Sources of Information
  • Collins Britain atlas and gazetteer, 1999(Winchcombe, Glos.; small town, attractive historic town 6m/10km NE of Cheltenham. sudeley Castle to SE; fine medieval 'wool church')
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 51°57ʹ00ʺN 001°58ʹ00ʺW)
  • Wheeler, R. Winchcombe Pottery, c1998:p.19 (Winchcombe)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 23 January 2018(Winchcombe; Cotswold town, near Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, England; it was a chief city of Mercia in Anglo Saxon times and the county town of Winchcombeshire in the 11th century; it had a motte and bailey castle in the 12th century and prospered from the medieval wool industry and pilgrimmages to the abbey in the medieval era; its prosperity declined after the Reformation and into the 17th century; the town expanded again from the 19th century onwards)
  • Winchcombe Ecumenical Partnership. Magazine, July/August 2015.
  • Adlard, E. A short history of the Postlip Mill, Winchcombe, 1950.
  • Bartholomew gaz. of Britain, 1977(Winchcombe, Glos.; nr. Cheltenham)
  • Municipal yrbk., 1984(Winchcombe, Tewkesbury District, Gloucestershire)
  • Winchcombe Pottery, c1998:p. 19 (Winchcombe)
  • GEOnet, Aug. 13, 1999(Winchcomb; [UF] Winchcombe)