<Tr> <Th> Water rides </Th> <Td> 5 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Blackpool Pleasure Beach </Td> </Tr> <P> Blackpool Pleasure Beach is an amusement park situated along the Fylde coast in Blackpool, Lancashire, England . The park was founded in 1896 and has been owned and operated by the Thompson family since its inception . It is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the United Kingdom, and one of the top twenty most visited amusement parks in the world, with a peak estimate of 5.5 million visitors in 2007 . In 2014 it was voted as the best theme park in the United Kingdom and the ninth best park in Europe by the Travelers' Choice Awards . </P> <P> The park is host to many records, including the largest number of roller coasters of any park in the United Kingdom with ten, of which four are wooden: the Big Dipper, Blue Flyer, Grand National and Nickelodeon Streak . Many of the roller coasters in the park are record breaking attractions . When it opened in 1994, the Big One was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world . It was also the steepest, with an incline angle of 65 ° and one of the longest, measuring 5,497 feet (1,675 m). Currently, the ride holds the record as the tallest roller coaster in the United Kingdom, standing at 213 ft (65 m), with a first drop of 205 ft (62 m). </P>

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