Tetbury
Tetbury is a village as well as 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, probably 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 came to be a crucial market for Cotswold wool and also yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is an annual competitors where participants have to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a high hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May annually. Notable structures in the town include the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic resurgence parish church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene as well as much of the remainder of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market house and also is still being used as a gathering place and market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum exist just outside the town. Tetbury has won 5 consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 2010 and also was classification victor "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom as well as won a Juries Discretionary Award for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time entrant in the National Britain in Bloom Project in 2009 and also a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features two dolphins.
