Urchfont Scarecrow Festival

On Saturday, I went to Urchfont in Wiltshire to see the Scarecrow Festival. The Scarecrow Festival is held each year on the first May Day Bank Holiday weekend. Each year, there is a themed scarecrow trail. This year's theme was historical people. Previous years seemed to focus on celebrities or films. When walking around the trail, you are meant to get a trail map and guide and write down the number of the scarecrow and the name of the person against a clue. It took us nearly three hours to get around to see all fifty-seven scarecrows, but the trail was well-planned and food and drink was available along the trail.

I will not give away who the scarecrows are meant to represent in my photographs, but many of these were very well done with the clothing matching the time period, and the scarecrows (in some cases) did look like who they were trying to represent. Some of the scarecrows had subtle clues around them too. We were confident that we got two-thirds of the answers correct and matched up all of the numbers, though I suspect we had a couple in the wrong order. Although severed scarecrow heads seemed to feature a lot in some of them. Sometimes it was difficult to remember the name of the person too, and some of them were very obscure. (I did well on some of the history but I am clueless about any of the sport-related ones.)