13 Jul
Cleaning | Conservatory
Tetbury - GL8
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Start Date: Immediate
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Tetbury
Tetbury is a small town and also civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hillside fort, 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, boosting to 5,472 at the 2011 census. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be an important market for Cotswold wool and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is a yearly competition where participants should bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool 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. Notable buildings in the community include the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 and also 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 fine example of a Cotswold pillared market residence and also is still in operation as a meeting place and market. Various other tourist attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist just outside the community. Tetbury has won 5 consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and also was classification winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and won a Judges Discretionary Award for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a novice participant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 as well as a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest includes 2 dolphins.
