Great Budworth Scarecrow Trail
One of Cheshire's best-preserved black-and-white timber-framed villages runs an annual scarecrow trail through its lanes and cottage gardens, where the handmade figures compete for prizes and the village itself, looking entirely unchanged since the Elizabethan period, provides a backdrop that no other scarecrow trail in England can match.
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