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The Great Whipsnade Railway, also known as The Jumbo Express, is an English, 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway that operates within ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England. Overview [ edit ]
Whipsnade Zoo, formerly known as ZSL Whipsnade Zoo and Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, is a zoo and safari park located at Whipsnade, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England. It is one of two zoos (the other being London Zoo in Regent's Park, London) that are owned by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats.
Whipsnade is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills , about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 km) south-south-west of Dunstable on the top of the Dunstable Downs , which drop away steeply to the south of the village.
The sea lions arrived from ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. The exhibit holds three million litres of water, making it the largest filtered sea lion exhibit in the world. Themed around the titular stretch of Californian coastline, Point Lobos is a two-acre, two-lake reserve with stony beach areas and several small islands.
ZSL bought the farm in December 1926 for £13,480 12s 10d. In 1928 the first animals arrived at the new Whipsnade Park—two Amherst pheasants, a golden pheasant and five red jungle fowl. Others soon followed, including muntjac deer, llamas, wombats and skunks. In 1931 Whipsnade Park was opened to the public as the world's first open zoological ...
The zoo opened in the early 1960s as Broxbourne Zoo. By 1984, it had earned a reputation as one of the UK's worst zoos. [2] [3] [4]In 1984, the Sampson family purchased the site with the intention of re-housing the animals into larger enclosures that mimicked their natural habitat, making them as comfortable as possible.
Woburn Safari Park was opened in 1970, established by the 13th Duke of Bedford and Jimmy Chipperfield on the grounds of his estate, Woburn Abbey.This was done as a means to help improve the financial position of the estate and restore the Abbey, which had fallen into disrepair as a consequence of the Second World War and relatively high post-war tax rates.
Whipsnade Tree Cathedral is a 9.5-acre (3.8 ha) garden in the village of Whipsnade in Bedfordshire, England. It is planted in the approximate form of a cathedral , with grass avenues for nave , chancel , transepts , chapels and cloisters and "walls" of different species of trees.