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4 KINGDOMS FAMILY FARM AND ADVENTURE PARK
Planning a day out with the kids? 4 Kingdoms Adventure Play and Farm Park is a family run farm and is ideal for your day out with the kids aged between 2 & 12. Set in 40 acres on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders with two large lakes, surrounded by the river Embourne. Ride the cars, become a shopkeeper or postman in the...
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Birdworld - Underwater World & Farm - Farnham
Birdworld and its facilities provide an excellent and ever expanding educational resource for schools and educational establishments. Our Education Team strives to promote an understanding of all birds and animals. This is done through fun and interesting talks in the park, for example: Penguin Feeding Talk the Birds of Prey Tour, the Safari Ride...
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Brookes Farm - Skeltons Lane Park
Brooks Farm is a wonderful visitor’s attraction based inside Skeltons Lane Park, Leyton, E10. The farm has full disabled access and two disabled parking bays (call to book). Parking is widely available on Skeltons Lane or Byron Road, although we strongly advise the use of public transport.During school holidays there are...
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Cholderton Charlie's Farm - Salisbury
Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm Park and Rabbit World is a converted milk dairy farm, set in beautiful countryside on the Wiltshire & Hampshire border only 4 miles from Stonehenge, with views to Salisbury Cathedral. Offering a relaxing experience for all ages whether you come for a coffee, or a few hours or to stay! We are a hands on...
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Corams Fields - Bloomsbury
Coram's Fields is a unique seven acre playground and park for children and young people living in or visiting London. It includes a Youth Centre, Children's Centre, Community Nursery, Sports Programme, a city farm and a cafe which is open from March until October. The park is open all year round from 9am until dusk and is free...
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Crystal Palace Park Farm
The farm reopened to the public in April 2008 and now provides facilities for members of the local community who are interested in developing their skills and knowledge in animal care and welfare. It is also hoped that the facilities can be used to enhance the curriculum offer available in local schools, by providing day visits for up to...
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Deen City Farm and Riding School - Merton
Deen City Farm is a unique, educational resource and registered charity in SW London, giving people the opportunity to learn from their visit or contribution to a successful community project. You can download a General Leaflet on the Farm from here. The Farm is based on National Trust land (part of the Morden Hall Park Estate) on the fringes of...
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Golders Hill Park - Hampstead Heath
Facilities include an animal enclosure, butterfly house, a bandstand, children's play area, cafe, toilets. Sports facilities include grass and hard tennis courts, golf practice nets and croquet.
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Hounslow Urban Farm - Feltham
Hounslow Urban Farm is London's largest community farm. It covers 29 acres and is an important educational resource and new leisure facility for all the family. Visitors can enjoy a variety of colourful and unusual farm animals close-up, including 5 types of pigs, Exmoor ponies, 15 breeds of chicken, goats, rabbits, ducks, geese and lots more. ...
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Kentish Town City Farm - London
Children, young people and adults are actively encouraged to participate in all aspects of animal care, from mucking out to helping with feeds and site maintenance. The farm has a stock of chickens, cows, ducks, geese, goats, horses, pigs and sheep. Some of the animals are rare breeds and they are are used to being ...
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Longdown Activity Farm - Southampton
A BIG welcome to our family run farm. Come along and enjoy a fantastic family day for everyone. Join in with our daily schedule of activities, which run throughout the day. You can bottle-feed the kid goats and the calves, feed the ducks, meet the pigs... and cuddle the baby rabbits, chicks or maybe even a piglet! PLUS lots more friendly...
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Marwell Zoological Park - Winchester
A visit to Marwell Wildlife is a chance to get up close to the wonders of the natural world and help save them. Marwell is a zoological park set in 100 acres of delightful Hampshire countryside, six miles south-east of Winchester. There's a real sense of purpose at Marwell - the conservation of endangered species. There are animals from almost...
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Mole Hall Wildlife Park - Walden
Mole Hall Wildlife Park was first opened to the public in 1963 and now covers over 20 acres of grounds and gardens, which surround the original moated manor house (private), which dates from 1287. The collection of animals and birds contains many exotic species including otters, flamingos, sarus cranes, primates (including...
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New Forest Reptile Centre - Lyndhurst
The New Forest Reptile Centre is to be found at Holidays Hill, approximately 2 miles west of Lyndhurst on the A35 road. It's a small but very worthy attraction and conservation centre where you can (potentially...) see all of Britain's reptiles in one place; adders, grass snakes, smooth snakes, lizards, frogs and toads are displayed in separate...
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Newham City Farm - Beckton
Come and visit Blaze the gigantic Shire Horse or taste the honey made in the farm's very own bee hives. The farm's pond is home to a host of geese and ducks. Opened in 1977, Newham Farm is one of London's longest established city farms, and boasts, among other animals, pigs, sheep and pygmy goats and even birds of prey. Free entry...
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Paradise Wildlife Park - Broxbourne
Paradise Wildlife Park is a privately owned establishment with the conservation of animals as it's main objective. The Sampson Family have owned the site for 21 years and have built a reputable Animal Park and Leisure Venue that is enjoyed by generations of local families. Not only does the Park serve the local community by offering employment,...
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Paultons Family Theme Park - Romsey
Paultons Theme Park - Way Too Much Fun For One Day! Paultons Theme Park in Hampshire offers a great family day out with over 50 different attractions included in the entry price. Set around the beautiful Paultons Gardens, the park lies on the edge of the new forest and is not far from Southampton. There is a great variety of things to see and do,...
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Spitalfields Farm - Buxton Street
Spitalfields City Farm is the nearest city farm to the square mile. Despite this, the farm is located in one of the most deprived and densely populated wards of Tower Hamlets (DOE 1996), although Spitalfields remains a vibrant and colourful multi-cultural area with strong community links. The farm is a registered charity and company limited by...
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Staunton Country Park - Havant
1,000 acres of landscaped parkland with ornamental lake, woodland and follies... the timeless beauty and tranquillity of the walled garden... the exotic species in the South Coast's largest glasshouses will amaze you.... surround the senses with colours, textures and aromatic scents in the Sensory Garden... get lost in the Golden Jubilee maze. ...
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Stepping Stones Farm - Stepney Way
Stepping Stones Farm was set up in 1979 as a result of community consultation. Local residents, schools, churches & community groups were consulted and a small patch of land was secured for the farms use. Since then we have doubled in size thanks to London Borough of Tower Hamlets giving us the derelict land that forms our square of 4.2 acres ...
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Surrey Docks Farm - South Wharf
Surrey Docks Farm is a working city farm in the heart of London. It occupies a 2.2 acre site on the south bank of the river Thames in Rotherhithe. The farm works with local communities and the people of Southwark to provide many unique opportunities for people to learn about farming and food production, and to be actively involved...
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The Nature Discovery Centre - Thatcham
The Nature Discovery Centre has a wonderful lakeside setting. The visitor centre, with cafe, hands-on exhibits and a varied and ever changing calendar of activities provides an ideal base for a day out. Our fantastic adventure playgrounds, network of footpaths and wildlife offer many opportunities to enjoy the fresh air at any time of year. Once...
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Vauxhall City Farm - London SE11
Vauxhall City Farm is an oasis in the heart of London, providing the local community and visitors from afar the opportunity to stay connected to nature and animals. Covering 1.5 acres of land, Vauxhall City Farm is home to over 80 animals, which provides a chance for Londoners to meet farm animals face to face from rare breed sheep and cows to...
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This section lists zoos and wildlife parks near Winchester so if you would like to take the little monkeys to the zoo please see our list below. Some of the zoos listed maybe farms, or petting farms, these zoos have a varied selection of animals for viewing.
there are lions and you can sometimes drive through the paddocks and view them from the comfort of your car. there are also baboons and monkeys which can be fun to watch. Or there are elephants, giraffes and other African and Indian animals. A lot of zoos have collections of insects and birds and also water creatures, all in all a trip out to the zoo is an educational experience for your children.
If you live near Winchester whether your needing inspiration for a good family day out then why don't you take the family to the nearby zoo. With so much to discover and do, a visit to the zoo will be the ideal day trip for people of all age groups. From Grandad to grandchildren, aunties and uncles, a visit to the zoo is superb fun time for all of the friends and family. A trip to your nearest zoo in Winchester is equally helpful and also useful, and also can leave you with a long lasting impact. The creatures on show will include many types of extremely rare, exotic and endangered animals. Getting close to one of the bigger wildlife including elephants as well as lions is an outstanding experience. You will find a large number of varied varieties of wild birds to view at a zoo such as birds of prey and also pelicans. Quite a few zoos will have a reptile building so you can easily see creatures such as highly poisonous snakes for example cobras. A wide variety of mammals is going to be on exhibit for example apes not to mention red pandas. From the waterways as well as oceans of our earth there are plenty of incredible fish to see such as unicorn fish. Diverse and colourful ocean life for example coral are definitely fantastic to see. Amphibians for example salamanders are usually captivating for youngsters of all age groups to study. A zoo is a place where living creatures are kept to be exhibited and researched. The name is a popular variety of zoological garden, and most zoos are landscapes or recreational areas containing structures and various other enclosures. Zoos usually keep only untamed creatures, several of these from faraway nations around the world. However, some zoos display domestic creatures such as pigs and chicks to show to city kids who may have no opportunity to see farms. Children's zoos are in some cases included in zoological gardens. They may have areas where children can observe small creatures, and at times now have sections where kids can pet and feed tame creatures. Zoos are definitely crucial centres for wildlife conservation. A lot of zoos breed endangered species, several of which are no longer found in the wild.
