Tetbury
Tetbury is a town and civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an old hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, possibly 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. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury ended up being a vital market for Cotswold woollen and also thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is a yearly competitors where individuals need to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a high hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Noteworthy buildings in the community include the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and also St Mary Magdalene and also much of the remainder of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market house as well as is still being used as a meeting point and market. Other destinations consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the community. Tetbury has actually 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 classification victor "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 Award for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 and a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest includes 2 dolphins.