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Tetbury
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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
UK place.postcode_district
GL8
UK place.dial_code
01666
UK place.os_grid_reference
ST890930

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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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tetbury” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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