THORPE Park has been named the country's best theme park by the Great British public. The UK Theme Park Awards took place last night, with the Surrey-based park bagging the top spot. 7 Thorpe Park has been named the best theme park in the country Credit: Alamy 7 Thorpe Park's Hyperia also bagged the top spot for the best new attraction Credit: Alamy The awards were organised by ThemeParks-UK.
com who publish independent consumer guides to theme parks. Theme parks were ranked after more than 360,000 votes were cast by the public. These votes were then combined with the scores from expert judges to rank the country's best theme parks .
Awards were spread across 22 categories, including the Best New Attraction, the Best Theme Park for Families, the Best Seaside Park and the New Park of the Year. Read More on Theme Parks RIDE ON Cool European city with direct trains from UK to get new theme park RIDE ON Everything happening at UK theme parks this autumn from Oktoberfest to Halloween Thorpe Park beat the likes of Alton Towers and Drayton Manor to be named the best theme park in the country for 2024. The Surrey-based theme park, which first opened to the public in 1979, also took first place for the best new attraction, Hyperia .
Hyperia opened to the public earlier this year, becoming the country's tallest and fastest rollercoaster. Standing at a whopping 236ft tall, the hypercoaster claims to be the UK’s tallest, swiping the crown from Blackpool Pleasure Beach ’s The Big One b.