The Forgotten Corner Review (2026)

We had no trouble finding out information about the attraction prior to our visit, with a very detailed website and responsive staff. We found staff onsite equally helpful, and while there was a queue quick to form on our arrival, the small batch sizes were welcome for the intimate experience we had. There was plenty of parking on the site, but the entrance to the haunt was a little difficult to find in the dark, and even when queued up most of the people around us were all questioning if we were in the right place. Luckily there was a roaming actor quick to join the queue, which allayed our fears of being in the wrong place. This roaming witch-like creature was there when we both entered and exited the park, and while we would have liked a bit more entertainment whilst queueing (perhaps some more music and a bit of ambient lighting), we really enjoyed our interactions with this actor, especially when they joined us to try to find our car in the dark!

As we queued up for the experience we stood under an arched gateway noting the entrance for The Forbidden Corner, complete with gargoyles and small flames, and providing quite a thematic start to the journey, albeit missing a bit of lighting and soundscape. However, once you enter the attraction you are completely immersed from start to finish, with every steward along the way costumed and part of the journey, and with the interesting architecture and landscape of the site swallowing you in its fantastical world. The only time we felt could have been a bit more immersive was at the end of our journey, which felt a bit abrupt and was then followed by an exit into a pizza parlour/cafe, which felt very strange. Upon entering the final scene just before this with twinkling lights and fun music, we’d love to see a mini fairground area at the end of this maze in the future where audiences are welcomed to sit down and enjoy the ambience for a bit before having to force themselves back into reality.

What makes this event so strong as a scare attraction are the unique scenic structures and landscapes. The Forbidden Corner in the daytime is a disorienting maze of dark tunnels, paths, hedges, grottoes and more, so in the nighttime when it becomes The Forgotten Corner this creates an adventurous path indeed! Soundscapes were a bit sporadic with not every area utilising sound, and while we think this could have been used more effectively it is understandably a massive site to cover. Soundscapes changed as we navigated through the space, from more ambient music, to some creepy piano, and some very ominous melodies in the vampire coffin area.

The sets we encountered generally utilised the areas that are already part of the site, like stepping stone pathways in a stream, beautifully lit fountains and endless hedgemazes. However in addition to the already pre-existing landscape there were some more built up scenes, such as a vampire crypt area complete with numerous coffins, some even with moving skeleton animatronics, as well as a wine cellar where a vampire stopped us to discuss drinking our blood. Some spaces were a bit more confusing in terms of how they tied into the adventure, including a homely room with a grandfather pig in a rocking chair nearby, a red hallway with picture frames, and some wooden structures built outside. One of our favourite spaces was definitely an indoor grotto-like space with a devil fountain lit up red – we would have loved a longer vignette in this immersive room but instead felt a little rushed through, but it was certainly an intriguing space!

In terms of other animatronics and sensory elements of note, we were surprised and delighted by hidden water jets that went off as we went past them, causing great hilarity in our group, and also enjoyed a few other smaller animatronics on the site including two men with a case of wine that almost appeared like it would tip onto our heads from above. Overall we enjoyed the scenic and sensory elements of the park, but think that a bit more ambient and thematic lighting would go a long way to make the interesting architecture more visible and attractive, and would also make it a bit easier to see the interesting characters we encountered, of which a few were far too shrouded in darkness to interact with appropriately.

We enjoyed the characters we encountered at this haunt, many of which felt very unique and fresh and who seemed perfect for the spaces around them. Our favourite characters of the night were definitely the raven-like creatures near the start of our adventure, who were excellent at making really weird almost haunting calls that must have been from some sort of whistle or similar – these were really creepy! Their costumes and masks were also quite scary and well made, overall creating a very cohesive creature concept, especially the King Raven, who looked almost to be on fire with lots of light and fog underneath him as he spread his wings. There were a great variety of characters encountered in the park, from strange pigs to angry cooks, and from executioners to rabbits. Most areas had sufficient numbers of actors, and while we think a few areas could have done with some actor assistance the areas that did have them felt well-paced and interactive. Some of us were kidnapped from our groups, made to dance, interrogated for rotten food and more. Not all of the characters made complete sense to us (including a man with a phallus on his head), but we lived in the moment and took the absurdities as part of the experience!

The Forgotten Corner did provide a few shocks and scares as we rambled through its mysterious landscape, and due to our small group size we were all shocked at various moments. Animatronics and sensory elements actually provided the most shocks, especially the numerous water jets that came out of nowhere and some of the animatronics that caught us by complete surprise. Another memorable scare for us was near the beginning of the maze when a tinkling character kept stalking us. We couldn’t see where this character was but the sounds of his tinkling jewellery kept following us, and every time we looked behind our backs to try to spot the creature we only saw a dark shadow hiding in the trees, there one moment and gone the next. We also enjoyed the scares provided by the Raven-like creatures previously mentioned, who chased and cornered us within a small maze. These were the primary scares of the night, and while some of the characters were menacing indeed (including an executioner who pretended to behead one of us and an angry cook who interrogated us), we didn’t find this event very intense in its scares. Included in this assessment was the finale, and while we heard a chainsaw we never really saw it, making the last few moments of the experience a bit confusing.

With a walkthrough time of approximately fifty minutes and a ticket price of £37, we find this attraction of remarkably good value, especially since the location is quite unique and very different to anything we’ve attended this season. Some parts of the maze were exceptionally interactive, and since our group was small we got to experience and see everything, and enjoyed how much like an adventure it felt to navigate mazes, traverse stepping stones over water and delve through tunnels. Even though the other couple we attended with were complete strangers, we felt like an inclusive group by the end of the venture, each laughing at the situations the others of our party were put into at various points along the way. We’d heard great things about this attraction prior to attending and were not disappointed in the least – it was truly an engaging quest!