Zoos That Have Closed

Zoo

Date Closed

Details

Cowal Bird Garden

2007 ??

Southport Zoo

2004

Glasgow Zoo

2003

Churnet Valley Wildlife Park

2002

Churnet Valley Collection was closed and transferred to the former Wildlife Park Kirkcudbright and re-launched as Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park.

Gatwick Zoo

2/09/2002

Russ Hill, Charlwood, Surrey RH6 0EG. UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: 44-01-293-862312 Fax: 44-01-293-862550

Gatwick Zoo which opened in 1973 closed on the 2/9/2002, the site was sold for housing.

Basildon Zoo

March 2002

Basildon Zoo
Vange, Basildon SS16 4QA. Essex Telephone: 01268-553985

Attendance	Staff	Area	Associations
30000	7	2

	Species	Specimens
Mammals	32	145
Birds	51	270
Reptiles	3	7
Totals	86	422

The Butterfly Centre Eastbourne

2001???

Building has now been demolished.

The Wildfowl Trust (Peakirk)

2001

Peakirk, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Flamingo Gardens and Zoological Park

2001

Flamingo Gardens and Zoological Park
Weston Underwood, Olney, Bucks. Telephone: 44-01-234-711451

Attendance	Staff	Area	Associations
	3	6

	Species	Specimens
Mammals	5	50
Birds	175	800
Totals	180	850

Bridgemere Wildlife Park, Nantwich, Cheshire

The Tropical Bird Gardens, Rode.

2001

Has Closed this Year.

Riber Castle Wildlife Park

31.10.2000

Carrick Green Wildlife Park

Approx 1998

3 Taylors Road, Stotfold,Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 4AZ.UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: 44-01-462-834-788 Fax:

Windsor Safari Park

1992

This safari park is now legoland. A site dedicated to the old Safari park can be found at http://www.windsorsafaripark.org.uk

Blean Bird Park, Kent.

1990?

Opened 1980 closed in the nineties? after repeated theft of birds.
Honey Hill, Blean, Canterbury, Kent CT2 9JP
Telephone: 44-01-227-471666

Stagsden Bird Gardens, Bedfordshire

1989?

Closed late eighties or early nineties?

Midland Bird Garden, Bridgnorth, Shropshire.

1984

opened in june 1979 closed 1984.

Loch Lomond Bear Park

1980?

Closed late 70's-early 80's

Whitson zoo, Nr Newport, Gwent

1970?

closed I think in the early seventies.

Kilverstone Wildlife Park

Morecambe & Heysham Winged World

1979?

Opened in 1966. This was an important bird collection that closed in the late 1970's.

Southampton Zoo

Was part of the Chipperfield empire and used as a holding unit for animals being transferred between Safari Parks.

Penscynor Wildlife Park, Neath, Wales

Penscynor Wildlife Park Cilfrew, Neath, Glam., SA10 8LF, S Wales
Telephone: 01639-642189 Fax: 01639-635152

Attendance	Staff	Area	Associations
216000	18	6	ISIS, FZG

	Species	Specimens
Mammals	28	199
Birds	87	317
Reptiles	8	41
Amphibians	3	11
Fish	40	3000
Invertebrates	8	50
Totals	174	3618

Kelling Aviaries , Kelling, Norfolk

New Forest Butterfly Farm

Longdown, Ashurst, Southampton, SO4 4UH
Telephone: 44-01-42129-2166 Fax:

Marineland, Morecambe, Lancashire

Haigh Minature Zoo, Aspull,Lancashire

Haigh Mini Zoo - Haigh Country Park, Wigan WN2 1PE
Telephone: 44-01-942-832-895 Fax:

Poole Park Zoo, Poole, Dorset

Padstow Tropical Bird Gardens, Padstow, Cornwall

Aberdeen Zoo

Animal Training School & dolphinarium, South Elmsdale

Belle Vue Zoo Park

Closed in 1977 after 140 years as a zoo operating within an amusement park.

Bideford Zoo

Bird Land ,Cromer

Black Mountain Bird Garden, Llanddeusant

Cleethorpes Adventure Land & Zoo

Cliftonville: Queens Hotel Dolphinarium

Clopton Bird Gardens & Fish Centre , nr Thrapston

Cornish seal Sanctury, St Agnes

Dreamland Safari Zoo, Margate

Hele Rare Breeds Farm

High Peak Garden Centre

Isle Of Wight , Dolphinarium

Marine & Freshwater Aquarium

Nuneaton Zoological Gardens

Pans Gardens, Ashover

Pinevalley, Devon Wildlife Park nr Oakhampton

Plymouth Zoological Gardens

Porthcawl Dolphinarium

Rhyl Dolphinarium

St Asaph Zoo, North Wales

Sherwood Zoo park, Hucknall

Skegness Dolphinarium

Southend Dolphinarium

Stanley Zoo, Harperley hall, Tantobie, Newcastle on Tyne

Stansted Wildlife Park, Essex

Stapleford Lion & Game reserve

Tropical Bird Garden, Bishops Tatchbrook

Tropicana Aquarium & Mini Zoo, Rhyl

Verulamium British Wildlife , St Albans

Wellingborough Zoo gardens

Wold Pottery Bird Garden