Tetbury
Tetbury is a small town as well as civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an old hillside fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, possibly by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became a vital market for Cotswold woollen and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is a yearly competition where individuals need to carry a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool up and down a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May every year. Notable structures in the town include the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic resurgence parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene and also much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market home and is still in operation as a gathering place as well as market. Other tourist attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the town. Tetbury has actually won 5 successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 2010 as well as 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 Judges Discretionary Honor for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a newbie participant in the National Britain in Blossom Project in 2009 and a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features 2 dolphins.
