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Tetbury

Tetbury is a small town as well as civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an old hillside fort, 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, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became a vital market for Cotswold woollen and also yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is an annual competition where individuals must lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen up and down a steep hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Remarkable structures in the town include the Church House, Market House, built in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene and also much of the remainder of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great example of a Cotswold pillared market home and is still being used as a gathering place and market. Various other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist just 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 and 2010 as well as was category winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 as well as 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom as well as won a Juries Discretionary Honor for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time participant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 and also a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes two dolphins.