Thorpe Park
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| Slogan | An Island Like No Other |
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| Location | Between Chertsey and Staines, Surrey, England, UK |
| Coordinates | 51°24′17″N 0°30′47″W / 51.40472°N 0.51306°WCoordinates: 51°24′17″N 0°30′47″W / 51.40472°N 0.51306°W |
| Owner | Merlin Entertainment |
| Operated by | Merlin Entertainment |
| General Manager | Mike Vallis (Divisional Director) |
| Opened | 24 May 1979 |
| Operating season | Mid March - Early November |
| Visitors per annum |
 1.85 million (2015) |
| Area | 200 ha (2.0 km2; 490 acres) |
| Rides | |
| Total | 27 |
| Roller coasters | 7 |
| Water rides | 5 |
| Website | ThorpePark |
| Status |
Amusement Park Closed Hotel Closed |
Thorpe Park, styled THORPE PARK Resort, is a theme park with a temporary hotel in between the towns of Chertsey and Staines, Surrey, England, UK. It is operated and owned by Merlin Entertainments. After demolition of the Thorpe Park Estate in the 1930s, the site became a gravel pit.
Thorpe Park was built in the 1970s on the gravel pit which was partially flooded, creating a water-based theme for the park. This essentially allows guests to view the park as an island, which is where the "island like no other" slogan originates from. It was officially opened to the public by the late Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1979.
Major attractions include Tidal Wave, Colossus, Nemesis Inferno, Stealth, SAW - The Ride, The Swarm and Derren Brown's Ghost Train.
The park is mainly geared towards a young adult/teenage audience due to the vast majority of signature attractions being roller coasters and thrill rides. The tallest of these being Stealth, an Intamin Accelerator Coaster, which launches riders from 0-80 mph in 2.3 seconds sending them 205 ft into the air. As well as this, The Swarm, which is the only B&M wing coaster in the UK, has a total of 5 inversions and is 127 feet tall.
The demolition of the Thorpe Park Estate in the 1930s saw the site transform into a gravel pit, originally owned by Ready Mixed Concrete Limited. In the late 1970s they decided to flood part of the site and create an educational theme park. The park opened as a small attraction, building slowly up to RMCs first large installation of "X:\No Way Out" in 1996. In 1998, The Tussauds Group bought the park (they also owned the nearby Chessington World of Adventures). From the outset the park started opening key attractions such as Tidal Wave in 2000, Colossus in 2002, Nemesis Inferno in 2003 and Stealth in 2006.
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