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Tetbury is a small town and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It rests on the site of an old hillside fort, 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, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury ended up being a vital market for Cotswold woollen and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is a yearly competition where individuals need to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a steep hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the “late May Bank Holiday”, the last Monday in May each year. Notable structures in the town consist of the Church House, Market House, built in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic rebirth parish church of St Mary the Virgin and 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 instance of a Cotswold pillared market home and also is still being used as a meeting point as well as market. Other destinations consist of the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum lie simply 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 also 2010 and also was group winner “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 Juries Discretionary Honor for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a novice entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Project in 2009 as well as a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features 2 dolphins.