Tetbury is a village as well as civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an old 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, boosting to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be an essential market for Cotswold wool as well as yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is a yearly competition where individuals need to carry a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races happen on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Remarkable structures in the community include the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene as well as much of the remainder of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market residence as well as is still in operation as a meeting place as well as market. Various other attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist just outside the town. Tetbury has won 5 successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and also was category champion "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and won a Judges Discretionary Honor for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a novice entrant in the National Britain in Flower Project in 2009 and also a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest includes two dolphins.