Tetbury
Tetbury is a town as well as civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an old hillside 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, raising to 5,472 at the 2011 census. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be a vital market for Cotswold wool as well as yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is an annual competitors where individuals must bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool up and down a steep hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May every year. Significant buildings in the community consist of the Church House, Market House, built 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 rest of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market residence and is still in operation as a meeting place as well as market. Various other attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the community. 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 group victor "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and also won a Judges Discretionary Award for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a newbie entrant in the National Britain in Flower Project in 2009 and a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes two dolphins.
