Tetbury
Tetbury is a town as well as civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an old hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery 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 became a crucial market for Cotswold wool and thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is a yearly competitors where individuals have to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen up and down a steep hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May every year. Noteworthy buildings in the town consist of the Church House, Market House, built in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene as well as much of the remainder of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine instance of a Cotswold pillared market home and also is still in use as a meeting place and market. Various other tourist attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also 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 category victor "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and won a Juries Discretionary Honor for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a new entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 and also a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes 2 dolphins.
