Tetbury
Tetbury is a town as well as civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an ancient 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, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an essential market for Cotswold wool and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is a yearly competition where individuals need to lug 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. Remarkable buildings in the town include the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 and also 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 and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market home as well as is still being used as a meeting point and also market. Various other destinations include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the town. Tetbury has actually won five consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and 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 as well as won a Judges Discretionary Award for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a newbie entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Project in 2009 and a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features 2 dolphins.
