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Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling

On the spring bank holiday, runners chase a wheel of Double Gloucester down a near-vertical hill in Gloucestershire.

A race at the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake on Cooper's Hill , in Brockworth , Gloucestershire , England, on 27 May 2013.
Photo: Dave Farrance, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cheeses for Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling

On the late May bank holiday Monday, a wheel of Double Gloucester weighing three to four kilograms is sent rolling down Cooper's Hill, near Brockworth, and a line of competitors throws itself after it. The slope is so steep that runners tumble more than run, and the cheese can reach high speed; whoever crosses the line first wins the wheel. The custom was described in writing in the early nineteenth century and is thought to be much older. The official event was cancelled in 2010 over safety concerns, but the race has continued each year, run by local people.

The cheeses

Double GloucesterDouble Gloucester, the hard round cheese that is chased.
About this page

Written by the EveryCheese desk with AI assistance. Background: "Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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