Home to the finest collection of native species in Britain, from tiny harvest mice to magnificent red deer... and everything in between. A REAL natural history experience! Open to the public every weekend and daily during state school holidays. Online Booking advisable to secure your place and save PS1 per ticket. When the Centre is closed to the public (weekdays in school term time) the Centre is available for pre-booked school trips, private guided tours and photography days.
While ago we were driving to Eastbourne and our journey led us passing BW Centre. I decided to save and put it on our bucket after reading the reviews. Today was the day we came . The actual place isn't big at all. Ideal with younger children who would moan to walk too much. I highly recommend to join the animal talks as during the talk you will have the best chance to see the animals being active. Our day started at 10:30 at the red squirrels. The animal care taker put the food out and a red squirrel was enough brave to show up . We had the same experience with the foxes. One of them only showed up because his carer was feeding him. He was a really playful and super friendly. Then we joined the otters and wild cat talks. Loved observing the animals! We spent good 4 hours moving around slowly. Everybody had a good time.
Brilliant place. Really good and flowing timetable of animal talks that don't clash so you can easily see all of them. It provided a really good education on British animals and the enclosures are very visible. Animals vary from red squirrels to snakes, deer to owls, and weasels to pole cats. There are about 9 Scottish Wildcats too which is great as they said there are only about 50 pure breds left in the wild.
We had a really wonderful experience at the British Wildlife Centre. It was so nice to see our native species up close and the keeper talks were so informative and interesting. It's worth spending most of the day here as the animals are awake and moving around at different times of the day and you don't want to miss any! Highly recommended!
Our visit was great. There was lots to do for 4 hours. I would recommend going to the talks because they are interesting and you see the animals more. We saw wild cats, otters, deer, weasel, pine martin, snake, frogs, bat, carp, fox, owls, wetland walk. Best of all we saw a red squirrel! The animals were playful and happy and well cared for. Patrick (age 7)
what a beautiful little place, all the amazing British wildlife. It was very hot so not all animals came out but what I did see, seemed happy and were in good shape. Well worth a trip.
Great day out, lovely to see our native species. Lovely helpful staff. Nice little cafe. Would recommend.
On-site services
Wheelchair-accessible car park
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
Picnic tables
Public toilet
Getting tickets in advance recommended
Good for kids
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While ago we were driving to Eastbourne and our journey led us passing BW Centre. I decided to save and put it on our bucket after reading the reviews. Today was the day we came . The actual place isn't big at all. Ideal with younger children who would moan to walk too much. I highly recommend to join the animal talks as during the talk you will have the best chance to see the animals being active. Our day started at 10:30 at the red squirrels. The animal care taker put the food out and a red squirrel was enough brave to show up . We had the same experience with the foxes. One of them only showed up because his carer was feeding him. He was a really playful and super friendly. Then we joined the otters and wild cat talks. Loved observing the animals! We spent good 4 hours moving around slowly. Everybody had a good time.
Brilliant place. Really good and flowing timetable of animal talks that don't clash so you can easily see all of them. It provided a really good education on British animals and the enclosures are very visible. Animals vary from red squirrels to snakes, deer to owls, and weasels to pole cats. There are about 9 Scottish Wildcats too which is great as they said there are only about 50 pure breds left in the wild.
We had a really wonderful experience at the British Wildlife Centre. It was so nice to see our native species up close and the keeper talks were so informative and interesting. It's worth spending most of the day here as the animals are awake and moving around at different times of the day and you don't want to miss any! Highly recommended!
Our visit was great. There was lots to do for 4 hours. I would recommend going to the talks because they are interesting and you see the animals more. We saw wild cats, otters, deer, weasel, pine martin, snake, frogs, bat, carp, fox, owls, wetland walk. Best of all we saw a red squirrel! The animals were playful and happy and well cared for. Patrick (age 7)
what a beautiful little place, all the amazing British wildlife. It was very hot so not all animals came out but what I did see, seemed happy and were in good shape. Well worth a trip.
Great day out, lovely to see our native species. Lovely helpful staff. Nice little cafe. Would recommend.
