We were delighted to announce that the overall winner of the Flamstead Scarecrow Festival 2025 was “Builder’s Bum”, entry 63, created by Sally & Richard Morrice.

In 2nd place was  “First Thatched Dog”, entry 14, created by Toby Newcombe.

Joint 3rd place went to Wheelie Wicked Witch, entry 8, created by Amanda & Tim Risley and “Pied Piper of Flamstead”, entry 46, created by Tim & Sue Wright.

Here are the top 20 Scarecrows as voted for by our visitors:

1st: No. 63 – Builder’s Bum, by Sally & Richard Morrice, Trowley Hill Road

2nd: No. 14 – First Thatched Dog, by Toby Newcombe, Trowley Bottom

Joint 3rd: No. 8 – Wheelie Wicked Witch, by Amanda & Tim Risley, River Hill
Joint 3rd: No. 46 – Pied Piper of Flamstead, by Tim & Sue Wright, River Hill

5th: No. 21 – Crowing me, crowing you, by Kathryn Stackhouse
6th: No. 44 – Gruffalo, by Louise Russell
7th: No. 66 – The Crowchet Crowquet Club, by Jeni Bowman
8th: No. 43 – Minecraft Chicken Jockey, by the Key family
9th: No. 45 – Evie, by Liz Jebb
10th: No. 2 – Strawberry Blonde, by Pam & Hartley Dean
11th: No. 11 – Spidey and Friends, by Hazel Bygate
12th: No. 24 – Crowie Kelly, by the Mercer family
13th: No. 3 – Crownah and the Whale, by Liz Foster
14th: No. 48 – Cat in the Hat, by Nicola Sanders
15th: No. 68 – 101 Dalmatians, by the Flamstead Rainbows
16th: No. 15 – Tree Beard, by Brendan Burns
17th: No. 16 – The Crow Bar, by Christopher Peacock
18th: No. 54 – Spider Man’s Day Off, by the Wilkinsons
19th: No. 41 – The Wild Crowbot, by Mark Coffey
20th: No. 23 – Alice in Crowland, by Sam Carter

Once again a very big THANK YOU to all of our scarecrow builders, volunteers, and everyone involved in the weekend’s events, in any way.