The Chance and Community Chest cards are being customised too. The new board will see Newbury landmarks such as Highclere Castle, Donnington Castle, Newbury Racecourse, The Old Town Hall and the town’s famous market replacing the likes of ‘Mayfair’ and ‘Park Lane’ from the classic MONOPOLY London original. The public will get to decide and shape the board, with a consultation period lasting two weeks, which will get underway immediately. It’s a major coup for the West Berkshire town – as the company producing this new edition of the world’s most popular board game have recently made official MONOPOLY games for Doha, Brooklyn, Phuket and Naples. The Berkshire town has come out top in a twenty-strong competition of high-profile UK market towns to secure its own MONOPOLY board beating – amongst others – Dorchester, Stow-on-the-Wold, Ludlow and Hexham. Newbury’s Mayor, the Town Crier and “Mr Monopoly” joined today to announce the Newbury Edition of Monopoly.
It had all the trappings of civic dignity from the Town Hall steps.
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