Tumbling and stumbling, participants of the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake give it their all to catch the cheese 🧀 The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, at Brockworth near Gloucester, England. Participants race down the 200-yard long hill chasing a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. The tradition is believed to be centuries old, with the earliest written record dating back to 1826. The event is unofficial and not or