Cheese Rolling Official Car Park
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The A46 Brockworth to Painswick Road can be seen running top
to bottom left of the picture. The official car park is the large field in the centre and
the lane up to Coopers Hill can be seen near to the top right of the picture.
This field, only 300 Meters from the event
on the hill, is set aside for parking on the day. You
are advised NOT to park on the main A46 or other local roads.
There will be NO PARKING on the main
A46 road!
Beware, this year it’s the Borough Council’s responsibility, not the police,
to enforce the No Parking Order!
Tewkesbury B.C. is expecting to make lots of money to swell their coffers from
parking fines. You have been warned!
Please use the official car park on the hill (Just £5.00 & including free
entry to the event), this is only 300 Meters from the event.
(Avoid unlicensed, unofficial car parks where your vehicle may be uninsured and
at risk from damage or theft!)
Last year, an unauthorised and
unofficial car park was opened on the A46, just a few hundred yards from the Cross Hands
roundabout, this caused traffic chaos, not only from the Cross Hands Roundabout to the
entrance to the unofficial car park, but on the approach roads to the roundabout too.
From
here, adults and children alike were forced to take a dangerous walk, without a
footpath, on the busy A46, 1.5 miles to the event.
To
ensure the safety of all, please park in the Official Car Park, which is much
closer to the event.
Only monies from the Official Car Park
will go to support the Cheese-Rolling event, payments made at unofficial car
parks, just go to line the pockets of the unscrupulous who seek personal gain
from the unsuspecting public!
Gloucestershire police will ensure that
sufficient officers are on duty at the event this year, this should ensure
increased safety by ensuring that obstructions do not occur!
2007 - A note on future events.
All the costs of running the event, providing safety
equipment, insurance, the purchase of cheeses and provision of prize money
comes only and exclusively from the takings of the official car park (£5 per
car) - that is the one up on the hill and accessed from the lane up to
Copper's Hill and the Cheese
Rolling.
In 2007 the unthinking and selfish actions of the person, or persons, by opening an
unofficial car park lower down on the A46 has meant a significant loss of
funds to the event.
The Unofficial Car Park can be seen in the upper centre of the picture on the
left, with the associated traffic chaos which can be seen stretching back to the
Cross Hands Roundabout. The delays were caused in part by the inadequate entry
arrangements into this car park, monies being taken at the gate prior to entry! Beyond this car park entrance, there was no standing
traffic on the A46!
Loss of this income puts the whole future of the Cheese Rolling at
Cooper's Hill in jeopardy, for example, without insurance the local council
would ban the event totally! Prohibition would signal the end of Cheese
Rolling at Cooper's Hill.
If you unwittingly parked in the unofficial car park, then your payment
contributed nothing at all to support the event. You will have been aware of the
traffic chaos caused on the main A46 from the A417 Brockworth Bypass, over the
Cross Hands Roundabout and along the A46 towards Painswick. You will also have
most surely been aware of the personal danger to yourselves and families, presented
by hundreds of people, many with small children, walking up the A46 towards
Coopers Hill, over spilling the pavement and walking into the already narrow
twisting road with double white lines!
If we want to see the event continuing in the current form, then please
support the official car park, we should not welcome, by our actions or
omissions, or the selfish action of others, the day when spectators and
competitors may have to pay to attend the event (as with other cheese rolling
events), or worse still, when we see the event prohibited by the local council
for lack of compliance, after surviving so many hundreds of years!
For those of you who used the official car park, we sincerely thank you for
your contribution to the event, and hope that you had a most enjoyable day.
With your continued support the event will continue, it has to, we cannot fail
this tradition!
Webmaster
Traffic flowed smoothly on the A46 for traffic entering the OFFICIAL car park, as this has multiple entrances,
all off the lane to Cooper's Hill - Professional Marshalling of traffic was
present to enable efficient entry and ensure safety and convenience, not only to
visitors to the event, but to the general travelling public. The official
car park is placed conveniently close, just a short, easy walk up to the hill
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Charges for entry to the car parking field are :
- Cars and small vans - £5
- Motor
bikes - £3
Unofficial car parks should be avoided
due to safety, security and insurance issues.
There is no local parking in the immediate area for
coaches - Coach drop off point is on the A46 Painswick Road at the bottom of the
lane to the car park and hill. Coaches should find parking further down (maybe
on the old Cirencester Road).
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