The Cooper’s Hill Cheese Roll is an annual race held at Cooper's Hill, near Brockworth, Gloucester. It attracts people from around the globe who come to chase a Double Gloucester cheese down the 200-yard-long hill. The first written evidence of cheese rolling is found in a message written to the Gloucester town crier in 1826; even then it was apparent the event was an old tradition and is believed to be at least six hundred years old. Some say it was all about claiming grazing rights on the common and land around Cooper's Hill, others believe it could have been a fertility ritual. The cheese used is 3–4-kilogram Double Gloucester, a hard cheese traditionally made in a circular shape- the cheese is made by local Cheese maker Mrs Smart. Each is protected for the rolling by a wooden casing around the side and is decorated with ribbons at the start of the race.

Source: Visit Gloucester