Winchcombe
Winchcombe is a town of 5,300 people in the Cotswolds. Winchcombe is a popular destination for walkers and history fans. With people often visiting the running Gloucestershire Warwickshire Heritage Railway steam train that connects it to Broadway and the Cheltenham Racecourse; and Sudeley Castle, the burial place of Queen Katherine Parr, that lies on its outskirts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,540 residents
- Description: town in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Winchcomb” and “Winchcombe, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sudeley Castle and Winchcombe Town Hall.
Sudeley Castle
Castle
Photo: Wdejager, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sudeley Castle is a Grade I listed castle in the parish of Sudeley, in the Cotswolds, near to the medieval market town of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England.
Winchcombe Town Hall
Museum
Photo: Bob&Anne Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Winchcombe Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. The structure, which accommodates the Winchcombe Folk and Police Museum, is a Grade II listed building.
Winchcombe railway station
Railway station
Photo: Maccer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Winchcombe railway station is a heritage railway station which serves the town of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, England. The station itself is actually located in the nearby village of Greet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stanley Pontlarge and Farmcote.
Stanley Pontlarge
Village
Stanley Pontlarge is a village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Prescott and the ecclesiastical parish of Winchcombe, in the Tewkesbury district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Stanley Pontlarge is situated 2½ miles northwest of Winchcombe.
Farmcote
Hamlet
Farmcote is a hamlet in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It lies 2 miles east of the town of Winchcombe and 2 miles west of Temple Guiting. Farmcote is a small place, a few houses along a dead end lane, but has a long history. Farmcote is situated 2½ miles east of Winchcombe.
Didbrook
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Didbrook is a village in the civil parish of Stanway, in the Tewkesbury district, in Gloucestershire, England, 8 miles north-east of Cheltenham. The village lies near the foot of the Cotswold escarpment. Didbrook is situated 2½ miles northeast of Winchcombe.
Winchcombe
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.953° or 51° 57′ 11″ northLongitude
-1.9655° or 1° 57′ 56″ westPopulation
4,540Elevation
338 feet (103 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WIBOpen location code
9C3WX23M+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 21238595OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Winchcombe” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Winchcombe”
- Basque: “Winchcombe”
- Bengali: “উইঙ্ককম্বে”
- Catalan: “Winchcombe”
- Cebuano: “Winchcombe (lungsod)”
- Cebuano: “Winchcombe (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Winchcombe”
- Chinese: “温什科姆”
- Chinese: “溫什科姆”
- Dutch: “Winchcombe”
- French: “Winchcombe”
- German: “Winchcombe”
- Gujarati: “વિન્ચકોમ્બ”
- Irish: “Winchcombe”
- Italian: “Winchcombe”
- Japanese: “ウィンチカム”
- Japanese: “ウィンチクーム”
- Kannada: “ವಿಂಚ್ಕಾಂಬ್”
- Korean: “윈치컴”
- Ladin: “Winchcombe”
- Latin: “Wincelcumba”
- Latin: “Winchcombe”
- Lithuanian: “Vinčkombas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Winchcombe”
- Persian: “وینچکم”
- Polish: “Winchcombe”
- Portuguese: “Winchcombe”
- Romanian: “Winchcombe”
- Russian: “Уинчкомб”
- Silesian: “Winchcombe”
- South Azerbaijani: “وینچکم”
- Spanish: “Winchcombe”
- Swedish: “Winchcombe (ort)”
- Swedish: “Winchcombe”
- Tamil: “விஞ்சுகொம்பே”
- Telugu: “విన్చ్కంబ్”
- Urdu: “وینچکومبی”
- Volapük: “Winchcombe”
- Welsh: “Winchcombe”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Winchcombe”. Photo: Prichardson, Public domain.