Locals in Harry Styles' Home Village Are Trying to Cash in With Guided Tours

Locals of Cheshire village, located in the small community of Holmes Chapel, are trying to cash in on the fame of one of the village's most well-known former residents.

The Holmes Chapel Partnership community group plans to launch tours of the village and are searching for Harry Styles superfans to work as tour guides, according to The Guardian. Auditions are set to be held later this month. They're looking for people aged 16 and over, according to group chair Peter Whiers, but "more senior individuals may also apply," he told The Guardian.

More than 5,000 Styles' obsessed fans, known as Harries, visited the town in the last year, hitting spots connected to the "As It Was" singer's life.

Those Styles' hot spots include a railway bridge near a dangerously busy road where the "Watermelon Sugar" singer enjoyed his first kiss. Some fans are "risking life and limb" in their attempt to visit the spot, the outlet reports.

The Twemlow Viaduct is also known as "Harry's Wall," because he wrote his name there during the filming of a biopic that came out in 2013.

Other Styles-related spots include W Mandeville's bakery where he worked part-time before he became a star with One Direction. The shop showcases a cardboard standup of their famous former employee holding up a loaf of white bread.

Other stops on the proposed tour include the cottage where he spent his youth, his onetime schools, and a Chinese restaurant where he took Taylor Swift on a date.

The Holmes Chapel Partnership isn't only trying to profit from Styles fans. They may be providing a public service for fans who travel from as far away as Australia, Mexico and the U.S. The map to Harry's Wall is safely approved in hopes that Styles fans won't be injured in pursuit of tracking the footsteps of their hero.

The tours are expected to run from June through September. "Even during the wet winter months, Harries have continued to visit, braving muddy banks and wet fields to pay homage to Harry's Wall." Whiers added.

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Harry Styles, One Direction