Tetbury
Tetbury is a village 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 monastery 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 became a vital market for Cotswold wool and thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is an annual competition where participants have to bring 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 buildings in the town include the Church House, Market House, built in 1655 and also 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 community centre, dating from the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market home and also is still being used as a meeting point and market. Various other tourist attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist just 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 and 2010 and was classification champion "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 Honor for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a new entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Project in 2009 and also a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest features 2 dolphins.
