Lacock Scarecrow Trail
The National Trust village of Lacock, where every street looks like a film set, fills its lanes and cottage gardens with handmade scarecrows based on children's book characters for two July days, a trail that turns the most perfectly preserved medieval village in England into an outdoor picture-book adventure.
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