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    The Cotswold Olimpick Games is an annual public celebration of games and sports now held on the Friday after Spring Bank Holiday near Chipping Campden...
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    The Cotswolds (/ˈkɒtswoʊldz, ˈkɒtswəldz/ KOTS-wohldz, KOTS-wəldz) is a region of central South West England, along a range of rolling hills that rise...
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    since the 17th century. The first such event was the Cotswold Games or "Cotswold Olimpick Games", an annual meeting near Chipping Campden, England, involving...
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  • Cotswold is a range of hills in central England. Cotswold or Cotswolds may also refer to: Cotswold, Ontario, a small community in Wellington County, Ontario...
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    best known as the founder and for many years the director of the Cotswold Olimpick Games. Robert was probably born between 1575 and 1582 in Norfolk, one...
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    Chipping Campden (category Cotswold District)
    town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath. Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612. One of the oldest...
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    of the most popular events at the Cotswold Olimpick Games from 1612 until the Games ended in the 1850s. When the Games were revived, in 1951, the sport...
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    British Olympic Association Cotswold Olimpick Games International Olympic Committee Shin-kicking Robert Dover (Cotswold Games) Beale, Catherine (2011)....
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  • the 18th century.[citation needed] Robert Dover's Olimpick Games are held in the Cotswolds from c.1604 to 1612. Events c.1611 — the world's earliest known...
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    "cheese-rolling" event takes place at Cooper's Hill, near Brockworth and the Cotswold Games occurred within the county. Places of interest in Gloucestershire include:...
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