Stilton Village, CAMBS, home of the anual Cheese Rolling
Created | Updated Apr 21, 2002
Stilton Village
Stilton is a small village in Cambridgeshire. The vilage itself shares some of the attributes that make Cambridgeshire such an interesting place not to be.
Despite this, the village does have 2 good points;
1) 4 pubs on the main street. (Try finding another village where you can do a pub crawl.)
2) Cheese Rolling, the anual event of mass stupidity, now perfected to an art form.
The four pubs in Stilton are (Running from North to South) The Stilton Cheese, The Talbot, The Angel and the Bell.
Each pub has it's own distinctive style, ranging from seedy (and cheap) to executive (A tie is recommended). For reasonable beer at a reasonable price, the best pub may well be the Talbot especially when the pool table and the giant TV are considered. The Bell does have excellent food however and the Cheese has been known to have a barrel of real ale on tap.
Cheese rolling is an anual event in the village and involves teams of four inebriated men and women rolling sections of yellow painted telegraph poll down a hill. (The mens and womens teams compete separatly.) The course is about 100 meters long, and the winning team gets a keg of beer and much ridicule. Silly costumes for the teams are mandatory.
The cheese rolling takes place on May Day (A bank holiday monday in May) for which the whole high street (a section of the old A1, now bypassed) is closed down. The roast hog on its own makes it worth visit, and there is a small fair and other sttractions as well.
Stilton is a small village in Cambridgeshire. The vilage itself shares some of the attributes that make Cambridgeshire such an interesting place not to be.
Despite this, the village does have 2 good points;
1) 4 pubs on the main street. (Try finding another village where you can do a pub crawl.)
2) Cheese Rolling, the anual event of mass stupidity, now perfected to an art form.
The four pubs in Stilton are (Running from North to South) The Stilton Cheese, The Talbot, The Angel and the Bell.
Each pub has it's own distinctive style, ranging from seedy (and cheap) to executive (A tie is recommended). For reasonable beer at a reasonable price, the best pub may well be the Talbot especially when the pool table and the giant TV are considered. The Bell does have excellent food however and the Cheese has been known to have a barrel of real ale on tap.
Cheese rolling is an anual event in the village and involves teams of four inebriated men and women rolling sections of yellow painted telegraph poll down a hill. (The mens and womens teams compete separatly.) The course is about 100 meters long, and the winning team gets a keg of beer and much ridicule. Silly costumes for the teams are mandatory.
The cheese rolling takes place on May Day (A bank holiday monday in May) for which the whole high street (a section of the old A1, now bypassed) is closed down. The roast hog on its own makes it worth visit, and there is a small fair and other sttractions as well.
