Tetbury is a village and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an old hillside fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon abbey 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. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an important market for Cotswold woollen and thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is a yearly competitors where individuals have to lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May annually. Noteworthy structures in the community include the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic resurgence parish church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene as well as much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine instance of a Cotswold pillared market house and is still in operation as a gathering place and market. Various other tourist 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" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 as well as was group champion "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 as well as 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom as well as won a Juries Discretionary Award for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time participant in the National Britain in Flower Campaign in 2009 and also a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest features two dolphins.