Gloucestershire Chronicle, Saturday 7th November 1863 – A Good Roadside Inn. To be let, with immediate possesion, the New Inn, Shurdington, three miles from Cheltenham. Coming in about £200. Apply to James Villar, Auctioneer, Cheltenham. Dated 22nd October 1863.
Stroud Journal, Saturday 29th August 1868 – Fatal mishap to an innkeeper: On Friday night, an accident, followed by a fatal result, for some time landlord of the New Inn, Shurdington. On the day named, Mr Ratcliffe had ridden on horseback to Stroud to attend the fair, and late in the evening returned towards Shurdington. About midnight, the gatekeeper opened the Pitchcombe toll-gate for Ratcliffe to pass through., and then he was riding very recklessly. About two hours later Mrs Ratcliffe heard the tramp of a horse outside the inn, and looking out saw her husband’s horse had returned without its rider. She raised an alarm and sent two men along the road, and about a mile from the inn, in the direction of Stroud, they found her husband lying on his face in the road, with his clothes disordered as though he had been dragged for some distabce along the road, and a broken stirrup-leather and loose iron were lying close by. There were several severe bruises on his head, but no wound, and he was quite insensible. He was conveyed home in a cary, and the following afternoon he still remained insensible, Mr Holt, surgeon, was sent for. That gentleman attended him until Monday, when he died, never having recovered consciousness. The Coroner held an inquest at Shurdington on Wednesday afternoon, when a verdict of “Accidental Death” was returned.
The Cotswold Hounds will meet at the New Inn, Shurdington, on Wednesday January 5th, 1876 at 11 o’clock.
Cheltenham Mercury, Saturday 13th December 1884 – NEW INN, SHURDINGTON: H. Clark begs to announce that he has taken to the above old-established inn, which having been entirely and thorougly renovated, and will be still further improved, he can now offer every accommodation to visitors, travellers, and the inhabitants in the immediate vicinity. Good stabling and accommodation for horses. Wines, Spirits,, Ales, Cigars, etc., of the best quality. Every accommodation for Pic-nic parties. First class Skittle Alley and handsome Pleasure Grounds.
A CONSERVATIVE SMOKING CONCERT WILL BE HELD AT THE NEW INN, SHURDINGTON, ON WEDNESDAY 6th DECEMBER 1893. H. SMITH, PROPRIETOR.
Gloucestershire Echo, 1st March 1921 – The New Inn, Shurdington: Three and a half miles from Cheltenham (or bus roure Cheltenham to Stroud). J. and F. Brewer are instructed by the Official Receiver tin Bankrupcy, Bristol, to sell by auction on Friday, 4th March, 1921, at 12 o’clock. Household and Trade Furniture, including upholstered dining chairs, high corner cupboards with glazed doors, Oak Pembroke and several deal tables, chimney mirrors, linoleum (36 yards), 4 Solid Walnut Tables (antique), Smoking, Bentwood, and Windsor Chairs, large Oak-grained Settle (new condition). Cottage Piano-Forte. All belonging to the Estate of S.G. Lindsey.
Gloucester News, Thursday 4th December 1986 – ‘Cross Talk’ by John Southgate: ‘Mr Lewis of Leamington Spa informs us there were 98 dispersal factories making parts for the Gloster Aircraft Company (GAC) during the war. The 99th was the affectionate title given to the Oddfellows Arms on the Shurdington Road.
Pubs at Shurdington have played a curiously “official” role in the illustrious history of the GAC. In the days when aircraft were built at Sunningend in Cheltenham and towed over to the Hucclecote airfield by lorry, an official stop was made at the New Inn (now called The Cheese Rollers). The reason for the stop was to allow the aircraft’s wheelbearings to cool. Sounds like the lorry drivers managed to pull not only the plane but a fast one too. But it’s true.’
Western Daily Press, Thursday 19th June 1969 – A cheese roll change: A 1,300 year-old Cotswold traditon was given something positive to be remembered by yesterday – the sign outside a public house. The New Inn in Shurdington, near Cheltenham, changed its name to The Cheese Rollers to commemorate the annual Cheese Roll at nearby Coopers Hill, Brockworth. The Whit Sunday race invites young people to chase down the hill in persuit of large double Gloucester cheeses. The Saxon ceremony is thought to mark the waning of the sun at the height of summer.
Mr Bruce Perry, spokesman for brewers Whitbread Flowers, said that it was company policy to change the names of New Inns, as they were rarely “new”. “We needed a name,” he said. “The Cheese Rollers seemed to be the natural choice.”
Courtesy Michael Wilkes
Gloucestershire Echo, Saturday 24th September 1988 – Cheese roll at pubs re-opening celebrations: Cheese rolling isn’t just confined to Whit Monday at one Gloucestershire pub. Mine hosts at the Cheese Rollers in Shurdington try their hands at it whenever they have some reason to celebrate. Yesterday licensees Maurice and Madeline Assouline (pictured) were celebrating the re-opening of the pub after a three month closure and a £120,000 refurbishment.
There was plenty of cheese in evidence at the re-opening including a 60 lbs cheddar cheese, which measured two feet in diameter. Mr Assouline, who is a trained French cuisine chef, is specialising in cheese for his new-look menu which features all kinds of meals from bar snacks to three courses.
The pub has undergone a transformation and now boasts a bar with a raised lounge area, a conservatory, large garden and children’s play area.
Image: Gloucestershire Echo. 
The Sun Lounge at the Cheese Rollers Inn. (Image Gloucestershire Echo) ‘Birds and plants enhance the interior of the Cheese Rollers’
Campaign for Real Ale – ‘Real Ale in Gloucestershire 1996’
Gloucestershire Echo, 29th August 2012 – Pub boss backed: Bosses behind the Cheese Rollers Inn at Shurdington have given their backing to its new landlady. Enterprise Inns wished new manager Kirsty Kitchen good luck in her new position, after she took over the reins of the venue, in Shurdington, following a two month closure. A spokesman for the pub giant said: “We wish the new publican every success.”
Gloucestershire Echo, 9th August 2013 – Ex-Tory backs ‘hard-working’ UKIP: Former Tory MP Neil Hamilton has shown his support for the UKIP party in Shurdington. Joined by his wife, Christine Hamilton, he spoke at a party meeting at the Cheese Rollers Inn. They were joined by Stuart Adair, who is the running to be the party’s prospective Parliamentary candidate for Tewkesbury and is the branch secretary for the Borough.
Map Reference: SO 919183
Licensing Details:
Owner in 1891: John Sadler (leased Cheltenham Original Brewery)
Rateable value in 1891: £22.10s.0d.
Type of licence in 1891: Alehouse
Owner in 1903: Cheltenham Original Brewery
Rateable value in 1903: £22.10s.0d.
Type of licence in 1903: Alehouse
Closing time in 1903: 10pm
Owner in 2011: Enterprise Inns
Landlords at the New Inn / Cheese Rollers include:
1856 John Evans
1868 Nathaniel Ratcliffe (he died in August 1868 – see above)
1871 Betsy Ratcliffe (widow)
1883 Robert Baldwin
1884 George Tyler
1884,1893 Henry Clark (In 1886 he took on the licence of the The Regent, Regent Street, Cheltenham)
1891 Mary Ann Bateman
1902,1906 Cornelius Ahern
Sudden Death – Cornelius Ahern, 56, army pensioner, and retired publican, was found dead in bed at his lodgings at the Loyal Volunteer Inn, Cirencester, on Monday morning 18th May 1914. He had suffered from asthma and dropsy. He was a native of Barthelmy, Cork, and had served for twenty years in the 4th Gloucestershire Regiment, and formerly kept the New Inn, Shurdington, Cheltenham.
1917 George Pratley (died April 1917)
1919 Samuel Lindsey
Gloucester Citizen, 3rd July 1950 – Mr Samuel George Lindsey (78) of Hucclecote died in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Sunday 2nd July. He had been involved in a motor car accident outside the Royal Oak on Saturday night. He was well-known locally as a ladder maker and also traded in pea and bean sticks to small-holders. Thirty years ago he was licensee of the New Inn, Shurdington.
1927,1939 George Bullock
Gloucestershire Echo, Thursday 25th November 1948 – ‘On the application of Mr J.D. Lane. at a special Licensing Court held at Cheltenham today, Mrs Winifred Louise Bullock, widow of the late licensee, Mr George Arthur Bullock, was granted the permanent transfer of the New Inn, Shurdington.’
1986 Robert and Freda Anderson
1987 Alan and Elizabeth
1988 Maurice Assouline & Madeleine Land (Sept)
1988 (?) Malcolm and Susan Mitchell
2001,2005 Sue Mitchell
2011 (October) Jacqueline Berry
2012 (August) Kirsty Kitchen