A magical new tourist attraction opened its gates on Thursday.
Hobbledown, which has replaced Horton Park Children’s Farm, is an adventure theme park based on a mystical story about the Hobblers - fictional characters which live in spectacular play structures.
It has a number of indoor and outdoor play structures including towers, tunnels, mazes, a low ropes adventure, aerial walkways, an interactive sand play zone and an aerial adventure course.
The park in Horton Lane, Epsom, was officially opened by inspirational youngsters Adam Bird, Jack Novis and Jack Devonport who had been nominated by the public to cut the ribbon.
Adam, eight, was diagnosed with high-risk Neuroblastoma in 2009, one of the most aggressive and difficult to treat of all paediatric cancers.
Jack Devonport, six, has recently finished three years of chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic Leukaemia and is described by his mum as "a brave little boy who has never once complained".
Jack Novis, 16 months, has already had open heart surgery and a kidney removed.
His proud mum says that despite his busy and sad year, he smiled through it all and has a very cheeky, boisterous manner about him.
Other highlights at the opening of the £3 million project included a tree climbing and zip wire spectacular and a book signing by Hobbledown author Angela Kecojevic and illustrator Lyn Stone.
Article by Hardeep Matharu at thisislocallondon
For information on Hobbledown visit Hobbledown
We love the great local businesses and community
The following Cookies are used on this Site. Users who allow all the Cookies will enjoy the best experience and all functionality on the Site will be available to you.
You can choose to disable any of the Cookies by un-ticking the box below but if you do so your experience with the Site is likely to be diminished.
In order to interact with this site.
To help us to measure how users interact with content and pages on the Site so we can make
things better.
To show content from Google Maps.
To show content from YouTube.
To show content from Vimeo.
To share content across multiple platforms.
To view and book events.
To show user avatars and twitter feeds.
To show content from TourMkr.
To interact with Facebook.
To show content from WalkInto.