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Howletts Wild Animal Park

Animal Farms, Zoos & Wildlife Parks · Canterbury, Kent

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Open now — closes 5pm

🌳 Outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Birthday partiesMemberships available

What’s there

  • Café on site
  • Free parking
  • Baby changing
  • Buggy friendly
  • Picnic area
  • Birthday parties

Access & inclusion

  • Step-free access
  • SEN friendly

Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.

Howletts is a 90-acre wildlife sanctuary in ancient parkland home to over 390 rare and endangered animals. The park holds Kent's only giant anteaters, the largest herd of African elephants in the UK, and more gorillas, leopards and monkeys than any other zoo in the county. You can walk through a lemur enclosure with ring-tailed, crowned and red-bellied lemurs overhead, and explore life-size prehistoric creatures along the Woodland Walk as part of Animals of the Ice Age. Free animal talks and feeding demonstrations are included with entry. Animal Experiences Days offer small-group encounters with expert keepers in behind-the-scenes areas.

Summer (20th April - 2nd November) and October Half Term (18th October - 2nd November): open all week 09:30-17:00. 3rd November - 24th December: open all week 10:00-16:00. Christmas Day CLOSED. 26th December - 3rd January: open all week 10:00-16:00. 4th January - 13th February: open all week 10:00-16:00. 14th-22nd February (half term): open all week 10:00-17:00. 23rd February - 27th March: open Fri/Sat/Sun 10:00-16:00. Easter Holidays (28th March - 19th April): open all week 09:30-18:00.

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