Tetbury
Tetbury is a town and also civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill ft, on which an Anglo-Saxon abbey was founded, possibly 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 ended up being an essential market for Cotswold woollen and also yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is a yearly competition where participants have to lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May yearly. Notable buildings in the town consist of the Church House, Market House, built in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene and also much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great example of a Cotswold pillared market residence and also is still in use as a gathering place and also market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum lie simply outside the town. Tetbury has won five successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 as well as was group winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 as well as 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and also won a Juries Discretionary Award for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a newbie participant in the National Britain in Bloom Campaign in 2009 and also a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes 2 dolphins.
