Tetbury
Also known as Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Tetbury is a town and civil parish inside the Cotswold district, in Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill 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, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. The population further increased to 6,453 in the 2021 Census.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Tetbury
- UK place.static_image_name
- Market_Place,_Tetbury_-_geograph.org.uk_-_862732.jpg
- UK place.population
- 6,453
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Tetbury
- UK place.shire_district
- Cotswold
- UK place.shire_county
- Gloucestershire
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Cotswolds
- UK place.post_town
- TETBURY
- UK place.postcode_area
- GL
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Tetbury is a town and civil parish inside the Cotswold district, in Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill 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, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. The population further increased to 6,453 in the 2021 Census.
==History== thumb|The 17th-century Tetbury Market House The name Tetbury derives from the Old English tetteburh meaning 'Tette's burh' (fortification).
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