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The more unusual events in the region include:

 Tetbury Woolsack Races (May), where contestants race between two pubs, up and down a hill with a 1:4 gradient, while carrying a 60lb sack of wool.

 Robert Dover’s Cotswold Olimpicks (May), where the highlight of events is shin-kicking. This version of the Olympic games has been going for over 400 years.

 Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling Festival (May/June), where contestants chase a Double Gloucester cheese down a hill whose gradient approaches 1:1.

 Bourton-on-the Water river football (August), where the shin-deep river forms the pitch and goalposts are set up under the bridges.

 Morris dancing can be seen throughout the year, often in busier tourist towns and villages. Its origins are lost in time, but two main theories suggest either it started as a fertility ritual or as a war dance.

 Stow-on-the-Wold’s Gypsy Horse Fairs in May and October.

 Levellers Day in Burford (May) celebrates a 1649 pro-democracy demonstration against Cromwell by some of his New Model Army.