Tetbury
Tetbury is a small town and also civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an ancient hill 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, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury ended up being an important market for Cotswold wool as well as yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is an annual competition where participants need to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool backwards and forwards a high hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Notable buildings in the town include the Church House, Market House, integrated 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 remainder of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market home and also is still in operation as a gathering place and market. Other tourist attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum lie simply outside the town. Tetbury has won 5 successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 2010 and was classification winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 as well as 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and also won a Juries Discretionary Award for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 as well as a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features 2 dolphins.
