The Cooper's Hill Cheese Roll is an annual race held at Cooper's Hill, near Brockworth, Gloucester. It attracts people from around the world who come to chase a Double Gloucester cheese down the 200-yard-long hill. The Cheese Roll usually takes place on the second Bank Holiday Monday in May each year.

Has anyone died doing the Gloucester cheese roll?

No one has ever been killed at the cheese roll, though there is an apocryphal story about a runner dropping dead at the end of a race centuries ago. Four adults and four children were zapped by lightning when a sudden thunderstorm interrupted the 1982 cheese roll.

What time of year is cheese rolling?

Every year, in the last Monday of May, a very extraordinary event takes place. The event that is held in the nature reserve Coopers Hill near Birdlip in Gloucestershire region (south west England), attracts thousands of local spectators as well as tourists.