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Animal Parks in the UK

Wild animal parks and safari parks are replacing zoos full of caged animals with today's hip, environmentally savvy kiddies. The United Kingdom has the oldest of these parks outside of Africa and several of the best ones. Find one near your UK holiday destination here.
Plan a Visit To Longleat - Longleat the UK's Top Family Attraction
Plan a Visit with these Quick Facts about Longleat, one of the UK's Top Family Attractions. Longleat was the first English stately home opened to the public and has the first Safari Park as well as several mazes, a lake with a Gorilla Island, an adventure castle and more.
Family Fun in Dorset: The Unique and Ancient Abbotsbury Swannery
The Abbotsbury Swannery is the only managed colony of nesting mute swans in the world. The 600-year-old swan colony is not only unique, it is great family fun near Dorset's Jurassic Coast.
Farmer Palmer's Farm Park - Family Fun For Younger Children
Farmer Palmer's Farm Park, near Poole in Dorset, is a family fun attraction for children under 8 years old. This safe, fun attraction has loads of personality and lots of baby animals.
Animal Babies at Longleat Safari Park
Pictures of Animal Babies at Longleat Safari Park
Longleat Review - Read About Longleat From a Child's Point of View
This review of Longleat Safari Park and family attraction in Wiltshire, takes a child's eye view. Visit Longleat with a teenager and a "tweenie" to discover what's cool and what's not.
Monkeyin' Around at Longleat
Funny pictures of Longleat's colony of Rhesus Monkeys at Longleat in Wiltshire, UK
Woburn Abbey Safari Park
Located in the "wilds" of Bedfordshire, near Milton Keynes, this venerable Safari Park is part of a huge estate. Europe's biggest pride of lions roam freely across a 32 acre reserve, bears and wolves run together and you can walk with elephants. A very good day out, not far from London and handy for touring the Midlands.
Whipsnade Zoo
At Whipsnade, just north of London in Bedfordshire, the lions roam free - but you watch from a glassed in enclosure. The chimps have their own chimpnasium and the lemurs live on an island that you can visit. At this country branch of the London Zoo, operated by the Zoological Society of London, the animals decide whether and when to show themselves - the people are the ones "enclosed."
Highland Wildlife Park
Scottish and European Wildlife as well as rare and endangered animals of the mountains and tundra. See Japanese Macaques - the northernmost living non-human primate. This park, operated by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, is associated with Edinburgh Zoo.
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