Artist/Event Name: Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpick Games
Venue: Dover's Hill
Time: 19:30
Date: 29/05/2009
Town/City: Chipping Camden
Country: England
Postcode: GL556BD
Official Ticket Price: Free
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Loading ...Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpick Games @ Dover's Hill - Description
Each year, on the traditional date of Friday after Spring Bank Holiday (the date for the Games this year is Friday 29th May 2009 on Dover’s Hill starting at 7.30pm), the hill echoes with the shouts and cheers of competitors and spectators as Robert Dover’s Cotswold ‘Olimpick’ Games (not Olympic Games) are celebrated. Bands march, cannon fire, rustic activities and wrestling take place, and the evening is brought to a close with fireworks and a torchlight procession into Campden followed by dancing in the square.
Paddy and Rory prepare to shin-kick
The event was made famous by the attendance, in 2008, of comedians Rory McGrath and Paddy Guinness as part of their “Great British Adventure” series. The pair got stuck in to the shin-kicking contest. The same contest is due to occur this year.
The games take place on Dover’s Hill, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire – it is in between Stratford-upon-Avon and Cheltenham.
This post was submitted by Rob Scott.
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