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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]. It is the fourth-largest amusement ...
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.
In 1843 Drayton Manor received a royal visit from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. [2] In farms of the estate the first Tamworth pigs were bred, their place of market being Tamworth. The house ceased to be the principal residence of the Peel family and in 1926 it was demolished. Only the clock tower now remains.
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 ...
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.
The Wave is a family sit down looping roller coaster, located at Drayton Manor Resort in Tamworth in the United Kingdom. It has the same track layout as The Shockwave, but now uses sit-down lap bar restraints.
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.
Ralph Basset, 1st Baron Basset (before 1265 – 31 December 1299) of Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman who fought in both the Anglo-French War and in the First War of Scottish Independence. He was the son of one of Simon de Montfort's barons, Ralph Basset (d.1265), and Margaret de Somery.