English Customs
Morris Dancing is a form of folk dancing that is practiced in England. However, even this 'custom' is really a nineteenth century invention, loosely based upon specific local dances with a much older heritage.
Guy Fawkes Night
Annual burning of an effigy on a bonfire accompanied by fireworks. The tradition started follwing an unsucessful attempt to blow up the houses of parliament on 5th November 1605
Cheese Rolling
Each Spring Bank Holiday Monday at Coopers Hill near Brockworth (Four miles southeast of Gloucester) local men and women charge 200 yards down an almost vertical slope chasing after a seven-pound Double Gloucester cheese. This mad and dangerous tradition is an amazing if somewhat unnerving site.
Cheese
Rolling in Gloucestershire
Swan Upping
An ancient royal and colourful ceremony of marking the new swans on the river thames each year. Take a close look at the swan upping ceremony.