Tetbury is a small town as well as civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an ancient hill ft, on which an Anglo-Saxon abbey was founded, probably by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, raising to 5,472 at the 2011 census. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be an essential market for Cotswold wool and also thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is a yearly competitors where participants must bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a steep hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May yearly. Noteworthy structures in the town consist of the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene as well as much of the remainder of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great example of a Cotswold pillared market house and also is still in operation as a meeting point and also market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum lie simply outside the community. Tetbury has actually won 5 successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 as well as was group victor "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 Juries Discretionary Honor for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a novice entrant in the National Britain in Bloom Project in 2009 as well as a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes 2 dolphins.