Tetbury
Tetbury is a town and civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an ancient hill ft, 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, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be a vital market for Cotswold woollen as well as thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is a yearly competitors where participants need to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool up and down a steep hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races happen on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May annually. Notable structures in the community include the Church House, Market House, built in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic resurgence parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene and also much of the remainder of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine instance of a Cotswold pillared market residence and is still in operation as a meeting point and also market. Various other tourist attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the community. Tetbury has won five successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and also 2010 as well as was category winner "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 Award for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time entrant in the National Britain in Bloom Campaign in 2009 and a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes 2 dolphins.
