Winchcombe

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Winchcombe
Coordinates 51 ° 57 ′  N , 1 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′  N , 1 ° 58 ′  W
Winchcombe (England)
Winchcombe
Winchcombe
Residents 4538 (as of 2011)
administration
Part of the country England
region South west
Shire county Gloucestershire
District Tewkesbury
Civil Parish Winchcombe

Winchcombe is a city and a management unit in the District Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucestershire , southwest of England . Winchcombe is 13 miles from Gloucester . In 2011 it had 4538 inhabitants. Winchcombe was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Wicecombe / Wicelcumbe / Wincelcumbe .

In Winchcombe, a remnant of the discontinued line to South Wales is a station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway museum railway .

Individual evidence

  1. GENUKI: Distance from WINCHCOMBE [SP020280 ] ( English ) Retrieved on April 26, 2017.
  2. Office for National Statistics: Area: Winchcombe (Parish) ( English ) Neighborhood Statistics. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  3. The Domesday Book Online: Gloucestershire QZ and Welsh entries ( English ) Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  4. Discontinued in 1960. Reopened in 1987. Between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse. Historic station building, moved here and rebuilt.