Talk:Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake/Archive 1

Page Move
I moved this page to place it under its proper title, and also because, while it's probably the most dramatic, this is not the only cheese-rolling activity that exists (some towns roll cheese down their high streets, for instance). The move leaves the original "Cheese rolling" page free to become a set of links to various cheese-rolling traditions if they are ever written. PeteVerdon 11:43, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

the First known winner in this event was Jasmine Wadham who rolled 103 yards
Apart from the fact this sentence was placed in the wrong paragraph (the one about possible Roman source of the event and completely miscapitalized, it's also unsourced as far as I can tell. Can someone source this? - Mgm|(talk) 14:48, August 6, 2005 (UTC)


 * I would ignore it. Distance is not relevant in this event (you'd end up crashing into somebody's garden wall) so this is either misplaced from some other cheese-rolling competition or a pathetic attempt at misinformation. PeteVerdon 11:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC)


 * On rereading the article, I see there's been another improbable claim of "first". I'm sure I remember the phrase "homemade scones and naughty children" from somewhere, but this is clearly just vandalism. PeteVerdon 11:52, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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"Not televised"?
It's on the TV just about every year! Not televised live or in full, perhaps, but there are clips all over the place. Loganberry (Talk) 03:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Knock over and kill the pope?!?!?
something's wrong here. No pope died in 1997. either the date is wrong (unlikely) or the sentence is entirely incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.139.100 (talk) 19:10, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to add to that there is a LOT incorrect about this article. There is no such thing as a super-sonic cheese (790mph) and there and it isn't 65 million years old. Even though I don't know the facts of this, I know what vandalism looks like, and I'll be removing it 131.111.139.100 (talk) 19:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Coopers Hill 'village'
"Cooper's Hill is a small, quiet village until the event, and is otherwise known as a stop on the Cotswolds Way."

Coopers Hill is NOT a village. The village nearby is Brockworth and to the other side it is Cranham but both are at least 1 mile from the Hill.

I will alter the text of the article to "Coopers Hill is otherwise a stop on the Cotswold Way." . Former resident of Brockworth, Arawn 09:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Nope, not true. There are houses all around the bottom of the slope in 'Coopers Hill' - ok it is a big of a stretch to call it a village, it is part of their postal address 'x cottage, Coopers Hill, Brockworth, Gloucester' J0random (talk) 18:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Catching the cheese 'rarely occurs'
I'd have thought it would be impossible, but this sentence suggests that it has been done. Is there any more information on anyone who's actually achieved this feat? Riedquat 20:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC) rhys deen is a woodland creature

It would be *impossible* to catch the cheese. No-one who could make it to the bottom of coopers hill in time would be in any fit state to use their hands, and anyone at the bottom would be sensible to get out of the way! The cheese is a disc about a foot across so it weighs a few kilos; it would easily knock you out or break a bone. More likely somebody with no evidence either way falling on the fencepost and putting neither - it should be removed. 137.205.28.59 (talk) 01:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree, this is absolute nonsense. The cheese is travelling at a serious speed by the time it gets to the bottom, the only people that 'catch' the cheese are seriously heart in hospital. It is said that more people are injured by the cheese than by the racing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by J0random (talk • contribs) 18:57, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Wake?
Some explanation of the usage of "wake" here is probably a good idea - I assume is not because they have to mourn the passing of all the unsuccessful cheese-rollers every year? — sjorford (talk)  17:34, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It would be nice to explain the origin of the name, but I suspect it's one of those things that's simply no longer known. It's easy to make up folk etymologies for it (mine would be that the word "wake" originally meant any kind of party or celebration, not just the one after a funeral that it's now used for) but we'd need a proper source before adding that kind of thing to the article. PeteVerdon 08:42, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The OED includes a definition of Wake as "The local annual festival of an English (now chiefly rural) parish, observed (originally on the feast of the patron saint of the church, but now usually on some particular Sunday and the two or three days following) as an occasion for making holiday, entertainment of friends, and often for village sports, dancing, and other amusements." This definition actually predates the use in relation to the funereal tradition and sounds like it pretty well fits with the annual cheese rolling festival.ReadingOldBoy 12:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wake is indeed used locally in that sense. The particular day in this instance is May Day. Arawn 04:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I saw an old history whilst at school which described a whole day of festivities including wrestling and maypole dancing on the race day. J0random (talk) 19:01, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * We might have more wrestling on race day, if the council and coppers ever get involved with it again. Halkyn (talk) 14:41, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

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Missing popular culture entry
The ancient browser game Neopets has had a Cheeseroller minigame for nearly two decades in the form of a small text-based adventure in which one chooses how to manuever a cheese wheel down a steep 120m hill, keeping the cheese if they succeed within 60 seconds. It is somewhat luck-based with random obstacles. It's been several years since I tried it, but I can't add it to the article myself as I'm too busy to phrase and format it correctly. This could be put as a citation: http://www.jellyneo.net/?go=cheeseroller Cornea Scratcher (talk) 10:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Very interesting, its on the radar when i get a chance.James Kevin McMahon (talk) 17:30, 3 June 2018 (GMT)

Hugh Atkinson winner talk contribs‎ m 27,529 bytes +17‎  →‎Mens race: I won the Cheese Roll 5 times running in the 1950's. I was born and raised in Brockworth and was educated at Kings School Gloucester. I sold my cheeses to the Bell in Gloucester. Thank you Hugh, you must be around 80 years old today (2019), I will endeavour to further research this and find out more. James Kevin McMahon (talk) 18:12, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Disputed winner of 2018 Men;s Race
Published evidence from Gloucestershire Live (see photo 60 of 61) https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/gallery/cheese-rolling-coopers-hill-2018-1617148 If you believe they have got the wrong name, please put a link here to online evidence that the person in that photo is as you claim - Aaron Schneider, thank you. James Kevin McMahon (talk) 18:16, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

2023 Ladies race result
All the press reported the unconscious Delaney Irving as the Ladies race winner, but if you look at the video it was actually a very close finish, in which it looked like Delaney Irving may well of been defeated at the last few metres. It all depends on what is the official finishing line, does anyone know? It could just be the press influencing the result because they wanted a good story !! The only person who contested this was whoever changed the result on Wikipedia days afterwards, to show the winner as Cleo Udema of the Nederlands. I searched the net for any info on who was deemed second in the race to no avail. Can anyone confirm the result looking at the video please. Thank you.James Kevin McMahon (talk) 17:04, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

1989 winners were all Swedish?
All the winners in the 1989 cheese rolling have Swedish names. Is this correct? Were they all Swedish or did they just have Swedish names? 94.234.102.82 (talk) 14:30, 12 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't think they are all Swedish. I have a copy of the book Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire by local resident Jean Jeffries. She notes that Paul Andres is a resident of Cashes Green, and Lawrence Farlow is from Brockworth. 2603:8080:1F00:EB26:7F1:1770:44EF:732D (talk) 20:35, 30 July 2023 (UTC)