Tetbury
Tetbury is a small town and also civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an old hill ft, on which an Anglo-Saxon abbey was founded, most likely 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. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury ended up being an essential market for Cotswold woollen and also thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is an annual competitors where individuals have to lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool backwards and forwards a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races happen on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May every year. Remarkable structures 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 also St Mary Magdalene as well as much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market house and is still being used as a meeting place and market. Various other tourist attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the community. Tetbury has actually won five successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 2010 and also was category 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 Judges Discretionary Honor for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a novice participant in the National Britain in Blossom Project in 2009 as well as a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest includes 2 dolphins.
