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The demolition of the Thorpe Park Estate in the 1930s transformed the grounds into a gravel pit, originally owned by Ready Mixed Concrete Limited.RMC excavated gravel from the site for 30 years from 1941 until 1970 when they began to plan a transformation of the site into a leisure based visitor attraction.
Thorpe Park Leeds [1] or simply Thorpe Park is a business park located near Brown Moor, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. [2] Companies that are headquartered in Thorpe Park include Northern Gas Networks, [3] Boost Drinks [4] and Pharmacy2U. [5] The Thorpe Park railway station is anticipated to open in the area in 2024. [6]
In January 2013, Thorpe Park announced that the last two rows on The Swarm would be rotated to face backwards for 2013, a first for a Wing Coaster. The park's tag line for this experience is 'THE SWARM- Brave It Backwards'. The park additionally announced that they were adding a damaged, mangled billboard, which the train travels through.
Rumba Rapids (also known as Rumba RAPids or Oompah Rapids) is a rapids ride at Thorpe Park, Chertsey, Surrey.It opened in 1987 under the name of Thunder River, and is the second oldest ride currently still in service at Thorpe Park.
Thorpe Park has shared a glimpse into its much-anticipated new ride in a video that takes you into the action on the roller coaster Hyperia, set to open to thrillseekers in spring 2024.
Nemesis Inferno is an inverted roller coaster at the Thorpe Park theme park in Surrey, England, UK. The ride was manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, the same Swiss firm that built the Nemesis inverted roller coaster at Alton Towers. The 750-metre-long (2,460 ft) Nemesis Inferno is themed around an erupting tropical volcano.
Magic Map Thorpe Park No 1 Gravel Pit is a 42.5-hectare (105-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) east of Virginia Water in Surrey . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of the Thorpe Park theme park.
On 14 March 2022, Thorpe Park submitted an extensive planning application to Runnymede Borough Council detailing their proposed redevelopments of the Old Town area of the park. [6] The main focus of the application is their proposed new roller coaster, at the time, code-named 'Project Exodus'.