Conservatory Blinds in Tetbury

Tetbury

Tetbury is a town and also civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an old 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, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury ended up being an important market for Cotswold woollen and thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is an annual competitors where participants have to carry a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool backwards and forwards a high hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Noteworthy buildings in the community include the Church House, Market House, built in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic resurgence parish church of St Mary the Virgin and also St Mary Magdalene and much of the rest of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market residence as well as is still in operation as a meeting point and market. Various other attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum exist just outside the community. Tetbury has won five consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was category victor "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 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 Blossom Campaign in 2009 and a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes two dolphins.