Tetbury
Tetbury is a small town and also civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an ancient hill ft, 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, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be an important market for Cotswold wool and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is a yearly competitors where individuals need to carry a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool up and down a steep hill (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 consist of the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic rebirth parish church of St Mary the Virgin and also St Mary Magdalene and also much of the remainder of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market home and is still in operation as a gathering place as well as market. Other tourist attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum lie 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 as well as 2010 and also was group victor "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 Judges Discretionary Honor for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a new entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Project in 2009 and a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features two dolphins.
