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Drayton Manor Resort is a family theme park, zoo and accommodation in the grounds of the former Drayton Manor, in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, UK. It covers 180 acres (73 hectares), of which about 113 acres (46 hectares) are in use, and hosts about 1.5 million people each year [ citation needed ] .
Drayton Manor, one of Britain's lost houses, was a British stately home at Drayton Bassett, since its formation in the District of Lichfield, Staffordshire, ...
Gold Rush is a steel family roller coaster located at Drayton Manor Resort in Staffordshire, England, UK.The coaster opened as a part of a strategic multimillion-pound investment and the new Frontier Falls area, and features two different layout sequences in which the ride switches track routes.
Thomas Land is a themed area at Drayton Manor Resort in Staffordshire, England, based on the popular long-running children's television series, Thomas & Friends. It stands on the former site of Robinsons Land, a themed area sponsored by the soft drinks brand of the same name. The construction began while the park was still open in September ...
Drayton Bassett is a village and civil parish [3] since 1974 in Lichfield District in Staffordshire, England. The village is on the Heart of England Way, a footpath. Much of the housing is clustered together but more than half is 20th century in the parish as a whole. In the parish is Drayton Manor Theme Park, occupying a large minority of its ...
George Bryan bought the 80-acre site near Tamworth, Staffordshire for £12,000 in 1949 and opened Drayton Manor Theme Park the year after. [2] The site was the residue of the former ancestral estate of the Victorian prime minister Sir Robert Peel. Peel and his family were declared bankrupt in 1911, with most of the house pulled down soon after.
The ride was transferred to Funland Hayling Island in 2005, being replaced by G-Force at Drayton Manor, [citation needed] replacing a roller coaster already on site, and became one of the main rides at Funland. [citation needed] It was replaced by Crazy Mouse style ride called Runaway Mine Train (originally from Gulliver's World).
The original tower 2000-2001. Apocalypse opened in April 2000 [1] and had four towers: towers 1 and 2 were sit-down, while towers 3 and 4 were stand-up. In 2002, the ride was partially rebuilt to accommodate a 5th tower to use as the world's first stand-up floorless element, and was also dubbed as the fifth element.