# Tetbury Guide - Ancient Cotswold Market Town

> Discover Tetbury, a wool-trade market town with 1300 years of recorded history, a pillared Market House of 1655, antique shops and the Woolsack Races.

URL: https://cotswolds.info/places/visit-tetbury.htm  
Section: Villages & Towns  
Location: Tetbury, Gloucestershire (51.638, -2.16)

![The market town of Tetbury](https://cotswolds.info/images/places-to-visit/tetbury3.jpg)

**Tetbury** - The town of Tetbury is proud of it's 1300 years of recorded history since 681 when Tetta's Monastery was mentioned in a charter by King Ethelred of Mercia. In the Middle Ages, Tetbury was an important market town for the Cotswolds wool trade and the town centre is still dominated by the splendid pillared Market House built in 1655. The town is known as an 'architectural gem' as many of the wool merchants houses still look as they did 300 years ago.

Tetbury is well known for it's many antique shops and it's close proximity to Prince Charles's residence of High Grove.

![St. Mary's Church Tetbury](https://cotswolds.info/images/tetbury/smallpic1.jpg)

**St. Mary's Church**

**LOCAL ATTRACTIONS**

St. Mary's church on the outskirts of the town has one of the highest Spires in England.

Shopping

**Westonbirt Arboretum** - 1.5 miles outside the town.

**Woolsack Races** - at Gumstool Hill on Springbank Holiday Monday. Teams race each other as they carry a 65lb bale of wool from the market square and back again.

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## The Ancient Market Town of Tetbury