Tickets on sale for bizarre Harry Styles tour in his hometown-Danni Scott-Entertainment – Metro

The tickets for tours of Harry Styles’ hometown go on sale today (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage)

Inquisitive fans of Harry Styles can now see the sights of his hometown, Holmes Chapel in Cheshire — for a small fee of course.

While the As It Was icon has moved out and now spends most of his time in London, dedicated ‘Harries’ are still flocking to the village.

So much so that locals have decided to create an official Harry Styles walking tour, in hopes of improving safety in the area.

Eager fans have been trampling through the town, which is home to around 6,700 residents, in an effort to connect with their idol.

Last year some 5,000 Harries are estimated to have visited, creating issues for locals and questions of safety which prompted The Holmes Chapel Partnership to create the tour.

For £20 per head, you can step inside Mandeville’s bakery, where Harry, 30, worked part-time before his rise to fame on the X Factor as one-fifth of One Direction.

There’s guided tours around Holmes Chapel where the singer grew up (Picture: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

Fans can leave notes and buy Harry-themed memorabilia (Picture: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

Encouraging the hype, owners of the bakery have placed a cardboard cut out of the then-teenage star in his uniform ready for fans to take a selfie.

Not devoid of romance, the tour also includes a glimpse of Twemlow Viaduct where the Watermelon Sugar hitmaker had his first kiss.

Sadly for fans, the famed Chinese restaurant, Fortune City, where he took fellow megastar Taylor Swift on a date is too far away to include.

However, the viaduct does have ‘Harry’s Wall’ where the singer wrote his name during the This Is Us documentary, which has now been covered with fans’ messages to the star.

The bakery Harry worked in as a teen has a cardboard cutout of him on display (Picture: Mandeville Bakery)

Tours will start in June for £20 per person (Picture: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

Fans can sign the Harry Wall where he wrote his name during One Direction’s documentary (Picture: William Lailey SWNS)

Ironically, when he first auditioned for the beloved singing competition Harry declared the town was ‘quite boring’ and added: ‘Nothing much happens there.’

He conceded that Holmes Chapel was ‘picturesque’ but given he rarely, if ever, returns fans are unlikely to bump into him in Mandeville’s.

While to non-Harries the tours seem a little indulgent, the locals insist it had become a matter of safety as fans crossed dangerous roads to get to the viaduct.

The two-and-a-half-hour tour will use traffic-free routes as they visit landmarks of Harry’s youth.

Over 5,000 fans visited the tiny town last year(Picture: SWNS)

Stops include his old home, his old job and where he had his first kiss (Picture: William Lailey SWNS)

When initially announced, Peter Whiers, the chairman of the Holmes Chapel Partnership, said they loved the ‘enthusiasm people have for Harry’.

However, he acknowledged that there was a balancing act between fans and the reality of a ‘historic village that dates from the 1400s’.

‘So this year we are taking a new route to keeping visitors safe by hosting guided tours to popular Harry locations,’ Peter said.

For anyone hoping to see the Styles sights, the tours will run on Saturday mornings from June 8 and on weekdays from July to September.

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