Tetbury
Tetbury is a town and 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, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an essential market for Cotswold wool and also thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is a yearly competition where participants have to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a steep hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races happen on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Remarkable buildings in the community consist of the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic resurgence parish church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene and also much of the remainder of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market home and is still being used as a meeting place and also market. Other attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum exist just outside the community. Tetbury has actually won five consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was group victor "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and won a Juries Discretionary Award for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 as well as a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest includes two dolphins.