Tetbury
Tetbury is a small town and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on 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, raising to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be an important market for Cotswold wool and also yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is an annual competitors where participants should bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen up and down a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Noteworthy structures in the community include the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and also 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 being used as a meeting place and market. Various other tourist attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the community. Tetbury has actually won 5 successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and also 2010 and was category champion "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and won a Judges Discretionary Honor for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time participant in the National Britain in Flower Project in 2009 and also a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features 2 dolphins.