Tetbury is a town as well as civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an old 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, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an important market for Cotswold woollen and also thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is an annual competition where individuals should lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool up and down a steep hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races happen on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May yearly. Noteworthy buildings in the town consist of the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic rebirth parish church of St Mary the Virgin and 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 fine example of a Cotswold pillared market residence and also is still in use as a meeting point and also market. Various other tourist attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also Westonbirt Arboretum exist just outside the community. Tetbury has won 5 consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 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 and won a Juries Discretionary Honor for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time participant in the National Britain in Flower Project in 2009 as well as a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features two dolphins.
