Tetbury is a village as well as civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an ancient hillside fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, most likely by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became a vital market for Cotswold wool as well as thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is a yearly competitors where individuals need to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool backwards and forwards a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May yearly. Remarkable structures in the town include the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic rebirth parish church of St Mary the Virgin and also St Mary Magdalene and much of the remainder of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market house and is still being used as a meeting point and also market. Other destinations include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the town. Tetbury has won five successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and also was group winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 as well as 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and also won a Judges Discretionary Honor for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a new participant in the National Britain in Flower Project in 2009 and also a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes 2 dolphins.