Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, near Gloucester in England. It was traditionally held by and for the people who live in the local village of Brockworth, Gloucestershire, but now people from all over the world take part. "The Guardian" newspaper called it a "world-famous event", with winners from the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Nepal. The event is traditional and takes its name from the steep hill on which it occurs. Until recent years, it was managed in a quasi-official
Hill, Gloucestershire acres of arable land and 130 acres of woodland. Ordnance Survey maps show Hill to have four small areas of woodland, in order of descending size these areas are; Catgrove, Fishpond Wood, Church-hill Wood and Ash Grove. Along with these Woodland areas, Ordnance Survey maps also show a number of small streams running through the centre and towards to the west of the Parish. The British History Online’s website contains an extract from A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) by Samuel Lewis, which described Hill’s geography as: Hill is home to one parish church, St Michael the Archangel's Church, dedicated