Tetbury
Tetbury is a village 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 essential market for Cotswold wool and also thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is a yearly competition where participants should 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 annually. Noteworthy buildings in the town include the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic resurgence parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene and much of the remainder 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 also is still in operation as a meeting point and also market. Other attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the town. Tetbury has actually won five successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 as well as was category 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 Neighborhood 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 town crest includes 2 dolphins.
