Drayton Manor Park opened its gates on April 4 1950 and presently covers 180 acres (73 hectares), of which about 113 acres (46 hectares) are in use, and hosts about 1.5 million people each year.

April Fool’s Day is increasingly an excuse for companies to turn social media into a quagmire of distrust, as they advertise products and deals that are entirely fake. Take, for example, TfL’s ...

A popular West Midlands theme park is celebrating its 75th birthday on Friday. Drayton Manor in Staffordshire started out as a modest family run park with simple rides, rowboats and a petting zoo.

To mark the theme park's 75th anniversary the group of over 70s took to the skies A group of thrill-seeking over-70-year-olds jumped at the chance to brave the rides at Drayton Manor Resort to ...

A group of thrill-seeking over-70-year-olds jumped at the chance to brave the rides at Drayton Manor Resort to mark its major milestone. The theme park, in Tamworth, Staffordshire, invited the ...

A popular West Midlands theme park is celebrating its 75th birthday on Friday. Drayton Manor in Staffordshire started out as a modest family run park with simple rides, rowboats and a petting zoo. Now ...

The Staffordshire-based theme park flung open its gates to thrill-seekers young and old on April 4, 1950, and has since become one most popular family parks in the country. Launch of the museum at ...

Drayton Manor has broken its silence after yesterday's April Fool's Day prank sparked controversy online. Theme park bosses confirmed that the park will in fact be scrapping its entry fees to ...

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Drayton Manor's attempt at an April Fool's Day prank has fallen flat with visitors who say 'they should be ashamed of themselves'. The start of April signalled the usual flurry of joke social ...