Wray, Lancaster, UK 25th April, 2014. Micheal Gove with pupil at the Wray Scarecrow Festival which opens on Saturday 26th April, 2014 for a series of events including 10 km run, Scarecrow parade, and funfair. The Scarecrow Festival, established 1995, takes place every year during the week leading up to May Day when there is a fair. During the week there are refreshments served daily in the village hall and a parade of the giants. Lots of the villagers put up scarecrows outside their homes. Credit: Mar Photographics/Alamy Live News
A beautiful rural location, in the Lune Valley, just north of Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Wray is full of lively local characters and groups, - and hosts many local events, such as the scarecrow festival and maggot races. Wray is also the first wireless hotspot village in Lancashire and lit the first rural fibre to the home in the UK. There will be some wacky scarecrows helping the jubilant villagers of Wray celebrate their annual country fair this year, all competing for their places on the winners’ rostrum… Wray Fair is now an integral part of the ever-popular Wray Scarecrow Festival, one of the ‘cultural’ highlights of the Lune Valley’s calendar. Visitors flock from far and wide to wander round the picturesque Lancashire village of Wray and enjoy the scarecrows which take over each spring.
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Location: Wray near Lancaster, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © Mar Photographics / Alamy / Afripics
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