The festival – which began in the early 1990s – has an origin story as quirky as the scarecrows on offer.
“It started off by accident,” Mr Gordon said.
“One of our people who lives here had gone to France on holiday and they saw what they thought was a man hanging off a tree and they were a bit worried about that, so they went into the local village to see what was happening and they noticed there was a scarecrow stuck on a bar outside the local pub.
“Wray is a very old traditional village and its had a May fair for centuries and they thought it would be a nice idea to add this to the May fair, so they persuaded one or two people to make scarecrows and it just took off from that.
“It was a momentary flash of brilliance.”
