{"id":704606,"date":"2026-07-22T04:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704606\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T04:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:26:11","slug":"plans-for-historical-theme-park-kynren-to-be-year-round-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704606\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for historical theme park Kynren to be year-round event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A seasonal historical theme park has submitted plans which it hopes will help it become a year-round tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Proposals for Binchester Earth, a new attraction beside the Roman fort in County Durham, have been drawn up as part of plans to expand Bishop Auckland&#8217;s Kynren site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The live-action show, which tells the story of England through 2,000 years, has recently expanded to include a day time attraction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plans form part of a wider project for the existing outdoor Kynren site to expand into 11Arches Park with three new performance venues inspired by different periods of history, as well as transport improvements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the plans, Binchester Earth would include a welcome and discovery centre and children&#8217;s play area, along with a programme of annual special events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Developers said it would complement the recently expanded Kynren which opened earlier this month with The Storied Lands new day park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seasonal historical theme park has submitted plans which it hopes will help it become a year-round tourist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}