Tetbury, a Civil Parish and a Small Town Within the Cotswold District in the English County of Gloucestershire.
Tetbury is a civil parish and small town in the Gloucestershire Cotswold. It sits on the site of an ancient hill fort where the Tetta’s Monastery, an Anglo-Saxon Monastery, was established in 681 as mentioned in a charter by King Ethelred of Mercia. This small town used to be a major market town for Cotswold wool trade in the Middle Ages. In fact, the impressive pillared Market House built in 1655 still dominates the town centre up to the present time.
Food, Shopping and Accommodation in Tetbury
Tetbury is famous for its bric a brac and antique shops. It also has a fantastic selection of shops mostly independent clothing and food shops including women’s clothing store Overider, the Prince of Wales’ “Highgrove Shop,” and a branch of the auction house Bonhams.
This market town also has an extensive collection of restaurants, pubs, cafes, bistros and tea shops that offer a wide choice of food and drink. Even the hotels and other accommodations including the award-winning Royal Oak Inn are within walking distance from the town’s market place which is convenient for visitors.There is a broad range of guest housing in this town to suit everyone’s preferences and needs.
Things to See and Do in Tetbury
Visitors will never run out of things to see and do in Tetbury, and the best way to fully cover everything is to join the numerous tours that are on offer - city tours, cultural tours, Cotswold market town tour, a tour of the Highgrove Royal gardens and self-guided walking tours.
The town is recognised as an “architectural gem” because of the Market House and since a lot of the houses of the wool merchants 300 years ago still look the same. Other buildings of note are late 18th Century Gothic Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene and the other 16th and 17th Century buildings in the town centre.