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Tetbury Woolsack Race to return after four year hiatus

Woolsack Racing will return to Tetbury over the May Bank Holiday after a four-year hiatus triggered by Covid. The annual contest involves competitors running 280 yards (about 256 metres) up and down a ...
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Woolsack Races

You are in: Gloucestershire > Our Crazy County > Woolsack Races > Woolsack wonderings Every year, Gumstool Hill is pounded by people watching the famous Tetbury Woolsack Races but it's also a place to ...
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Chasing cheese wheels or lugging sacks of wool, UK competitors embrace quirky extreme races

LONDON — Dairy-loving daredevils threw caution to the wind Monday for one of Britain’s most extreme annual events: Cheese rolling. Cheered by several thousand spectators, scores of reckless racers ...
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Tetbury Woolsack Races 2007

Thousands lined the streets of Tetbury to witness the annual event which sees teams and individuals run up and down a hill with a woolsack on their back! Dating back to the 17th century the Tetbury ...