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Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Louise Jayne

For my birthday back in May I decided that I’d like to go back to Yorkshire Wildlife Park. The last time we went, all the way back in 2016 (!) we were very impressed but we were even more so this time. They’ve expanded greatly and everywhere looks fantastic with a whole shopping area just before the entrance plus larger enclosures for all the animals. I’ve been to a few wildlife parks lately which have cheetahs (my favourite wild animal) but they hadn’t been out and about so I was incredibly happy to see so many here and be able to take photos of them.

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Categories: England, Yorkshire | Tags: amur leopard, bush dogs, cheetah, dinosaurs, gelada monkey, giant otter, giraffe, leopard, monkey, okapi, photo post, polar bear, sea lion, wildlife, wildlife park, yorkshire, yorkshire wildlife park | Leave a comment

York City Walls

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Louise Jayne

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York has the longest and most well preserved medieval walls in England stretching 2 miles around the city. On my trip to York I only did a partial walk around on two separate days, one from Bootham Bar past York Minster and the other over the west corner, passing the railway station to Micklegate Bar.

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Categories: England, York, Yorkshire | Tags: jewbury, Jewish history, ruins, view, walls, York, york city walls, York Minster, yorkshire | 3 Comments

Barley Hall, York

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Louise Jayne

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Barley Hall is a reconstructed medieval townhouse that was originally built in around 1360 by the monks of Nostell Priory. A new wing was added in 1430 and it became the home of William Snawsell, Lord Mayor of York.

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York Castle Museum

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Louise Jayne

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York Castle Museum is built on the site of York Castle which was built by William the Conqueror in 1068. The museum was founded by John L. Kirk, an amateur archaeologist, in 1938 and housed in the prison buildings built on the site of York Castle in the 1700s.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Park 2016

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Louise Jayne

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Back in May we made a return visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park (you can read about our first visit here). Then, as now, we found it to be an excellent day out and well worth the entrance fee. Since our last visit they had added some new animals which were a real highlight – three new polar bears to make four in total, plus some armadillos which we’d never seen before and which I had no idea moved quite so fast!

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Categories: England, Yorkshire | Tags: armadillo, giraffe, lion, lioness, meerkat, mongoose, polar bears, tiger, yorkshire, yorkshire wildlife park | Leave a comment

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Louise Jayne

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On a fantastically sunny day in early September we headed out to Yorkshire Wildlife Park. Our main intention was to see the newly installed polar bear, which we achieved, but we were thoroughly impressed with the Park as a whole. It had an excellent range of animals from lions and tigers, to zebras and meerkats and giraffes and capybaras. Viewing platforms were well positioned and actually being able to walk about amongst some of the animals like the wallabies, lemurs and squirrel monkeys was an unexpected treat.

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Categories: England, Yorkshire | Tags: animals, animals in zoos, camel, eland, giraffe, lionesses, meerkat, mongoose, photo post, polar bear, squirrel monkey, wallaby, yorkshire, yorkshire wildlife park | 1 Comment

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