The sport is much the same as it was when it was first competed 400 years ago There are just 50 days to go until the Olympic Games begin in London, but for some people the pinnacle of the sporting ...

The shin kicking competition, pictured here in 1951, is a well-known discipline at the Cotswolds Olimpicks The addition of the Cotswold Olimpicks to a new heritage list could be "vital" for its future ...

The Cotswold Olimpick Games are held annually in the Cotswolds, England. (Duncan Wood) “Kick him! Kick him! Kick him!” the baying crowd chant in unison. On a hill just outside Chipping Campden, a ...

Terry Morgan, a resident of Chipping Campden, a member of the Royal Photographic Society and a semi-professional photographer, shares his notes about the Cotswold Olimpicks and Scuttlebrook Wake.

Just one day until the start of the Olimpicks. No, I haven't lost my diary and ability to spell. Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpicks takes place on Friday near Chipping Camden, exactly 400 years after ...

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THOUSANDS of people crowded on to Dover's Hill in Chipping Campden for the 402nd Cotswold Olimpicks. Also known as Robert Dover's Games, the event attracted about 3,000 people on Friday night who ...

The addition of the Cotswold Olimpicks to a new heritage list could be "vital" for its future, a historian has said. The event takes place in Chipping Campden and counts the world shin-kicking ...