Fireplace Installation in Tetbury

Tetbury

Tetbury is a small town and also 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, boosting to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury came to be an essential market for Cotswold wool and also yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is an annual competition where individuals have to lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen up and down a steep hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Significant 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 and St Mary Magdalene and much of the remainder of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market home as well as is still being used as a gathering place as well as market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also Westonbirt Arboretum lie simply outside the town. Tetbury has won five consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and also was group champion "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom as well as won a Judges Discretionary Award for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time participant in the National Britain in Bloom Project in 2009 and also a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest includes 2 dolphins.