The popular family challenge event with a Lord of the Rings theme known as RING QUEST is set to return to West Stow Country Park near Bury St Edmunds during the forthcoming half-term holiday. The event is now in its third year at West Stow and continues to grow in size and popularity each year. With a great new prize, plus additional puzzles and drawing activities, the event should be even bigger and better than before!
The Ring Quest is a challenge for the whole family to take part in. To complete the challenge, families form their own “Fellowship” and together follow the clues hidden throughout Middle Earth (otherwise known as West Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village) collecting runes along the way to solve the final puzzle and save the realms of the Elves, Dwarves and Men!
Fellowships that successfully finish the Ring Quest will be entered into a prize draw for a chance to win a selection of fantastic Lord of the Rings play figures, featuring each of the nine members of the Fellowship including Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn.
Chris White, West Stow Country Park Ranger, said:
“The Ring Quest is great fun for kids and adults alike and you don’t need to be a Lord of the Rings expert to take part. With clues hidden throughout the CountryPark and the Anglo-SaxonVillage, it’s a great opportunity to use your brain and your legs!"
Chris continues:
“It’s a little known fact that some of the characters from Middle Earth speak and write the same language as the Anglo-Saxons that actually lived here at West Stow in the sixth century! The author of the Lord of the Rings book, JRR Tolkien, was an expert on the Anglo-Saxon period and we think he used Anglo-Saxon people as inspiration when he created the characters of Middle Earth. So the Anglo-Saxon Village at West Stow is the ideal location for a challenge event like the Ring Quest.”
The Ring Quest event will be running everyday from Saturday 12 to Sunday 20 February. Each fellowship pack for up to five people (including a maximum of two adults) will cost just under £5, and under fives are free. Packs are available from West Stow Country Park Visitor Centre which opens at 10am and closes at 5pm, although the last pack will be sold at 3pm.
West Stow also offers a large free car park, an excellent play area and a small café and shop. Follow the brown tourist signs to the Anglo-SaxonVillage, which is six miles north-west of Bury St Edmunds off the A1101.
For further information about this event and others at WestStowCountryPark and Anglo-SaxonVillage, please call 01284 728718 or email weststow@stedsbc.gov.uk.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
If this press release was sent as an email attachment, please see the thumbnail images of this year’s prize and last year’s event that are also attached. High quality versions of these images are available on request. Please email christine.white@stedsbc.gov.uk for further information or call 01284 728718.
ISSUED BY CHRISTINE WHITE, RANGER/EVENTS, ST EDMUNDSBURY BOROUGH COUNCIL. Tel 01284 728718 Fax 01284 728277 christine.white@stedsbc.gov.uk
