Tetbury
Tetbury is a village and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an ancient hillside fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, probably 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. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury became a crucial market for Cotswold woollen and also yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is an annual competition where participants should lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen up and down a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Remarkable buildings in the town 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 much of the rest 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 and also is still being used as a meeting place and also market. Various other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum lie simply outside the town. Tetbury has actually won five successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 2010 as well as was group 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 Judges Discretionary Honor for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a newbie entrant in the National Britain in Flower Campaign in 2009 and also a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features 2 dolphins.
