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, possibly by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be a crucial market for Cotswold wool as well as yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is a yearly competitors where participants 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. Notable buildings in the community include the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic rebirth 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 home and also is still being used as a meeting place and market. Various other attractions consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also Westonbirt Arboretum lie just outside the community. Tetbury has actually won 5 consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was category champion "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 Juries Discretionary Honor for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time entrant in the National Britain in Bloom Campaign in 2009 as well as a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features two dolphins.
