Tetbury
Tetbury is a town and also civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an old hill fort, 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, raising 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 competition where individuals should lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen up and down a steep hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May yearly. Remarkable structures in the town consist of the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic rebirth parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene and much of the rest of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market residence and also is still being used as a meeting place as well as market. Other destinations include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist just outside the town. Tetbury has actually 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 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and also won a Juries Discretionary Award for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a novice participant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 and also a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes 2 dolphins.
