Zoos & aquariums · West Midlands
Cotswold Wildlife Park
Cotswold Wildlife Park is a zoo or aquarium in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–5 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Cotswold Wildlife Park is a zoo, wildlife park, or public aquarium in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1970. It covers approximately 160 km². Address: OX18 4JP. Coordinates: 51.7736°, -1.6542°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cotswolds
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens is home to more than 1,500 animals from 250 different species, making it one of the largest zoological collections in the United Kingdom. Other attractions at the Park include a narrow gauge railway and the Skymaze adventure playground. The Park is set in 160 acres (0.65 km2) of landscaped parkland and gardens near the Cotswold town of Burford in Oxfordshire, England. It welcomed over 460,000 visitors in 2022.
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Background
History
-Gothic manor house]] In 1804 the estate's owner William Hervey had the current manor house called Bradwell Grove Manor House designed by William Atkinson and built by Richard Pace of Lechlade, in the then-fashionable Georgian Gothic style. This followed the example of Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's masterpiece at Twickenham. The house replaced an original 17th-century Jacobean residence, part of which was incorporated into the north service wing. In 1923 the house and estate were purchased by Colonel Heyworth-Savage, and on his death when killed in action in North Africa on 28 December 1941 the estate was passed to his grandson John Heyworth. John Heyworth was born in the manor house on…
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- Coordinates
- 51.7736, -1.6542
- County
- Oxfordshire
- District
- West Oxfordshire
- Parish
- Broadwell
- Postcode
- OX18 4JP
- Parliamentary constituency
- Witney
- Established
- 1970
- Official site
- www.cotswoldwildlifepark.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q5175494 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Cotswold Wildlife Park (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Cotswold Wildlife Park -Burford, England -gardens-25June2006.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Cotswold Wildlife Park?
- Cotswold Wildlife Park is in Oxfordshire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode OX18 4JP), in the parish of Broadwell.
- When was Cotswold Wildlife Park built?
- Built or established in 1970.
- Is Cotswold Wildlife Park a protected site?
- Yes — Cotswold Wildlife Park is part of the Cotswolds National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Cotswold Wildlife Park?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode OX18 4JP. It sits within the Witney parliamentary constituency.