Tetbury is a town and also civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an old hillside fort, 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, raising 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 a yearly competition where participants have to carry a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool backwards and forwards a steep hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races happen on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May annually. Noteworthy structures in the town include the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and also St Mary Magdalene and also much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market house and is still in operation as a meeting place as well as market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist simply outside the town. Tetbury has won 5 successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and also was group winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom as well as won a Juries Discretionary Award for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a newbie 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.