photo of scarecrow looking down on the village and the wifi mast

Wray Village Website

Welcome to the

Scarecrow page

Thank you to everyone who made this year's festival a resounding success, the weather, the visitors, Blue Peter, Granada reports, Radio Lancashire and all the generous sponsors. We had a lot of fun, and hope you will all join us next year...

Scarecrow Festival 2010

Photos and videos from last year on links at side of page

Themes for this year's festival
Detectives, crime or cluedo (the game)	Traditional
Reality T.V. (take your pick)	Moving scarecrows
Topical (the election, world cup etc)
A Special section for local school's scarecrows is in the Flood Gardens
	Top prizes for the best scarecrows this year are two V irgin Balloon flights!

Wray is 8 miles from junction 34 off the M6 between Lancaster & Kirby Lonsdale-

map on left side of page

Saturday 24th April	Start of festival, 10k Road race (13:15) & BBQ at the George & Dragon
Sunday 25th April	Car boot sale (08:00) on the school field
Wednesday 28th April	Morris Dancing (20:00)
Friday 30th April	Giant Scarecrow Parade (20:00) The parade walks the length of Main Street ending at Bridge End Farm Tea Rooms. Presentation of prizes for the Best Scarecrows refreshments and a Bonfire.
Sunday 2nd May	Scarecrow Ball race (14:00)
Monday 3rd May	Fair Day starts11am and Fell Race 11.30am start

Main Events at Wray Fair. Monday 3rd May
Main Ring	Side Shows and Displays
Duck Herding BMX Trial Bike Display Birds of prey display Traditional Pipe Band Junior 5-aside FootballCompetition Mr Rainbow - children's entertainer	Traditional Fairground - all ages Craft Tent (jewellery, rag rugs, spinning, felting and lots more rural crafts) Classic Car and Military Vehicle Display Rare Breeds Display Traditional Village Craft display Tea Tent and Refreshments Fell Race 11.30 am start Fairground Games Digital photo display Lancaster University
£3 for adults; £1 for OAPs; kids under 12 free	£1 for parking

Refreshments in Wray Institute are available throughout the week

provided by different local charities selling fresh, delicious produce.

Sat 24th April Lowgill Church
Sun 25th April Tatham Church
Mon 26th April Friends of Lowgill School
Tues 27th April Wray Over Sixties
Wed 28th April Wennington Hall School
Thur 29th April Wennington WI
Fri 30th April Wray Church
Sat 1st May P.T.A.
Sun 2nd May P.T.A.

Street entertainment will be performed by the children at Wray Primary School

11.00am and 2.00pm each day

Guided tours of the village and scarecrows are held throughout the week.

Information updates/any changes will be published on Notice Board at the Institute

and on Wray Village Website Scarecrow page

The event is organised and supported by volunteers, who put hours into making the Festival and Fair a success to give you a great day out - this is a non-profit making event, where all proceeds go directly to local charitable organisations- we hope you come and enjoy the Wray Festival and Fair and thank you,

Wray Fair Committee on behalf of Wray Institute

car booter

Car Boot Sale Sunday 25th

Please let us know if you have any suggestions or if you find problems using this site,

email: webmaster @ wrayvillage.co.uk

click here for online link to add your photos to the noticeboard

Last year's Wray Fair 2009

Click here for youtube video

Fell race results 2009

Wrayfair photos by Aftab 2009
Click here for quiz answers in word document,

the winner was Mrs.M.Packer, from Manchester

Opening ceremony was at 12 noon, Tom Lister from Emmerdale did the honours

Despite the rain the fair went ahead, we are British and nothing can stop us once we make our minds up to do something. Congratulations to the scarecrow committee for all their hard work making sure the day was successful, great fun was had by everybody.

Thanks also to Wray Institute for providing the facilities to enable all the local charities to profit from the fair by selling refreshments.

Photos from the fair on the links to the left, including various people with Tom Lister, who was absolutely great and signed autographs for hours.

Photos from the grand parade and prizegiving from Tony, click here

online now, panoramic views of the scarecrows from last year with Tony Quinn's VWray 2008- click here Scarecrow photos from 2008 online now, also on the digital noticeboard in the post office. 10k road race, photos of winners crossing line here

video 2008 parade accompanied by the Mayor of Lancaster, the Deadbeats Samba Band plus all schoolchildren joining in with their musical instrument and fancy Dress.

	For all enquiries regarding lost and found property, reserving an area for a stall at the 2010 Fair, and for further details please phone the Institute - 01524222311 or email: scarecrows @ wrayvillage.co.uk but please check the links at the sides of the page as most information is available there. Wheelchairs are available for visitors during the Festival There will be occasions during the Road Race, Giant Scarecrow Parade and Wray Fair Day when Traffic Control will be in place. PLEASE BE PATIENT Thanks to the various volunteers who work so hard all week during the festival and help us make the fair such a success.
	There will be an exhibition of art by Studio Trail artists in the church photo album here During the festival week at Wray, starting 24h April and ending on Bank Holiday Monday, May 3rd there will an opportunity to see and buy work by the Lunesdale Trail artists in the Church in the village. 2.00pm. until 5.00pm. daily. Monday 3rd. 10am. until 4pm. A donation for the church would be appreciated. Free entry.
	Street entertainment will be performed by the children at Wray Primary School 11.00am and 2.00pm each day Guided tours of the village and scarecrows are held throughout the week.
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