WINCHCOMBE

In February 2021 Winchcombe was struck by one of the few meteorites to land in Britain, yet this was just the latest significant event to occur in the Cotswolds town’s fascinating history, which stretches back to Neolithic times.

The history of Winchcombe is writ large all over and around the town. There’s the 5,000-year-old Belas Knap burial mound on Cleeve Hill; marks from Civil War bullets can be seen in St Peter’s belfry; and stones from buildings constructed during the Anglo-Saxon King Coenwulf’s time are thought to have found