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Winchcombe, Hailes Street c.1960
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More about this scene
Like many other Cotswold towns, Winchcombe's fortunes rested on the wool trade. But in Charles II's time, fortunes were also made locally by growing tobacco. When the crop was banned, local farmers refused to give up its cultivation. Samuel Pepys noted in his diary: 'The Life Guard was sent down into the country to Winchcome to spoil the tobacco there which it seems the people there do plant contrary to the law'. Enraged locals sent the king's crack troops packing.
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