Tetbury is a village as well as civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hillside ft, 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, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be a vital market for Cotswold woollen and also yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is an annual competitors where individuals should lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool backwards and forwards a high hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races happen on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May annually. Noteworthy structures in the community include the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic resurgence parish church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene and also much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great example of a Cotswold pillared market home as well as is still in use as a meeting place and market. Other tourist attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also Westonbirt Arboretum lie just outside the town. Tetbury has won 5 consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and also 2010 and also was category winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and also won a Judges Discretionary Award for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time participant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 as well as a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features 2 dolphins.