Winchcomb, market town and par. with ry. sta., Gloucestershire, on river Isborne, under the Cotswolds, 6½ miles NE. of Cheltenham, 5700 ac., pop. 2834; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Market-day, Saturday. The town was known at Domesday as Wincelcombe, and ranked as a manorial incorporation. The church is ancient. There are a town hall, a mechanics institute, a reading-room, and two endowed schools. The industrial establishments include a silk factory, a papermill, a tanyard, and flour mills. Fairs for horses are held in March and July.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))