S W Bennett
Based: in Berkeley, GL13 9TALatest review
John B., GL5
Painter | Interior in Stroud
Stephen was very good -- he came when he said, kept in touch well, was competitive in pricing, and completed the job on ...
Tetbury
Tetbury is a town and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hillside ft, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, most likely 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 an important market for Cotswold wool and thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is a yearly competitors where individuals must bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool backwards and forwards a high hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May yearly. Significant structures in the community consist of the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic rebirth parish church of St Mary the Virgin and also St Mary Magdalene and much of the remainder of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great example of a Cotswold pillared market house as well as is still being used as a meeting place and also market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the community. Tetbury has actually won five successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was group champion "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 Juries Discretionary Honor for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a new entrant in the National Britain in Flower Project in 2009 as well as a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest includes two dolphins.
