Venture just outside Bristol for the Cooper's Hill cheese-rolling spectacular
Posted on: 22 Mar 2017The annual cheese-rolling race will take place at Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire on the 29th May as a continuation of one of the West Country’s weirder institutions. You would have to be crackers to take part…
Let’s brie ‘avin ya! The time is almost upon us for the annual instalment of the excellent slice of West Country weirdness, where the country’s fromage-fans and cheddar-chasers willingly throw themselves down a hill in pursuit of the only thing really worth risking life and limb for: cheese.
That’s right, May sees the return of cheese-rolling, the wonderfully wacky South West tradition in which participants chase a wheel of cheese down the near-vertical descent of Cooper’s Hill, with the winner claiming it as his or her prize. The spectacle has been recognised by the Guardian as a ‘world-famous event’, and it really has to be seen to be believed.
The races are open for all to compete in, with rollers travelling from the four corners to compete for eternal Gloucestershire glory. For those mature enough to know better, the event still represents perhaps the finest spectator sport going and makes for a fine day out.
The Cooper’s Hill cheese roll takes place on the Spring Bank Holiday Monday, which this year falls on the 29th May. For more information, head over to the event's Facebook page.
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An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.
