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Woburn Safari Park is a safari park located in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England. Visitors to the park can drive through exhibits, which contain species such as southern white rhino, elephants, tigers and black bears. It is part of the estates of the Duke of Bedford that also includes Woburn Abbey and its 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) deer park. The Safari ...
Woburn Town Hall. Woburn was first recorded as a hamlet in 969 and is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. [3] It is best known as the location of Woburn Abbey (a stately home) and Woburn Safari Park. The abbey was founded by Cistercian monks in 1145 and granted to the first Earl of Bedford in 1538 after the dissolution of the monasteries. The ...
Puerto Rico: Vega Alta (Safari Park, 1970). The name of the park was simply "Safari Park". [5] United States: Arizona: Camp Verde (Out of Africa Wildlife Park, 1988) Arkansas: Gentry (Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari, 1970) California: Escondido (San Diego Zoo Safari Park, formerly San Diego Wild Animal Park, 1972)
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The first nine editions at Woburn were on the Duke's Course, whilst the 2016 edition was the first of two on the Marquess Course. [6] The club has hosted many other Ladies European Tour events: the Ford Ladies' Classic was played on the Duke's Course from 1982 through 1984, then moved to the Duchess Course in 1985; the final edition at Woburn ...
The park was the first safari park in the UK to have all five African big game animals, [1] although its leopards have since been moved to Scotland and the last remaining Cape buffalo left in 2022. It was also the first park or zoo in Europe to successfully breed white lion cubs and has made efforts to conserve the species.
Initially the road through the park was 3.5 miles (5.6 km), with visitors driving past lions, cheetahs, monkeys, giraffes, zebra, elephants and various antelope. Due to the popularity of this route, an additional 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of road was added in 1973, and camels, buffalo, white rhino, and tigers were added to the park. Over the years, a ...