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Tetbury is a small town and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an old hill ft, on which an Anglo-Saxon abbey 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. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury ended up being an important market for Cotswold woollen and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is a yearly competition where participants need to bring a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool up and down a high hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the “late May Bank Holiday”, the last Monday in May every year. Remarkable buildings in the town include the Church House, Market House, integrated 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 as well as seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great instance of a Cotswold pillared market house and is still being used as a meeting place and also market. Other destinations include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House as well as Westonbirt Arboretum lie just outside the town. Tetbury has won 5 consecutive Gold awards in the Regional “Heart of England in Bloom” competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 as well as was classification winner “Best Small Town” in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and also won a Juries Discretionary Award for Area Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a novice participant in the National Britain in Bloom Project in 2009 and a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest features two dolphins.