Coventry Zoo, Coventry

#79 among attractions in Coventry

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Coventry Zoo was a zoo located in Whitley, Coventry, England. Its owners and directors were members of the famous Chipperfield circus family. ()

Coordinates: 52°23'22"N, 1°29'25"W

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South Coventry (Cheylesmore)Coventry United Kingdom

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Coventry Zoo – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Bulls Head Ground, Midland Air Museum, Lunt Roman Fort.

1.4 miNW
Arts and local history and culture displays
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
36 min walk • Herbert Art Gallery & Museum is a museum, art gallery, records archive, learning centre, media studio and creative arts facility on Jordan Well, Coventry, England.
1.2 miNE
Sport venue, Sport, Bars and clubs
Bulls Head Ground, Coventry
32 min walk • Bulls Head Ground is a cricket ground in Coventry, West Midlands. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1848, when Coventry played an All-England Eleven.
1.2 miSE
Museum, Specialty museum
Midland Air Museum, Coventry
30 min walk • The Midland Air Museum is situated just outside the village of Baginton in Warwickshire, England, and is adjacent to Coventry Airport. The museum includes the Sir Frank Whittle Jet Heritage Centre, where many exhibits are on display in a large hangar.
1.1 miS
Museum
Lunt Roman Fort, Coventry
30 min walk • The Lunt Roman Fort is the archaeological site of a Roman fort, of unknown name, in the Roman province of Britannia. It is open to the public and located in the village of Baginton on the south eastern outskirts of Coventry.
1.2 miW
Memorial
Coventry War Memorial, Coventry
32 min walk • Coventry War Memorial stands at the centre of War Memorial Park, to the south of the city of Coventry in England. The memorial is a tapering tower 87 feet high, completed in 1927. It was restored in 2011, and designated as a Grade II* listed building in January 2013.
1.4 miNW
City hall
Council House, Coventry
37 min walk • The Council House, Coventry is a Tudor Revival style civic building which acts as the meeting place of Coventry City Council and was built in the early 20th century. It is a Grade II-listed building.
1.3 miNW
Street
Gosford Street, Coventry
33 min walk • Gosford Street is one of Coventry's most historic streets, located on the edge of the city centre, just beyond the inner ring road. Far Gosford Street is one of the few streets in Coventry that survived modernization, dilapidation and the Blitz.
1.2 miNW
Monastery
Whitefriars, Coventry
32 min walk • The buildings known as Whitefriars are the surviving fragments of a Carmelite friary founded in 1342 in Coventry, England. All that remains are the eastern cloister walk, a postern gateway in Much Park Street and the foundations of the friary church. It was initially home to a friary until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
1.5 miNW
Church
Queens Road Baptist Church, Coventry
39 min walk • Queens Road Baptist Church is a Baptist church located in the city centre of Coventry, England. The Chapel is a grade II listed building.
1.2 miN
Library
Coventry University, Coventry
32 min walk • Coventry University is a public research university in Coventry, England. The origins of Coventry University can be linked to the founding of the Coventry School of Design in 1843.
0.6 miNW
Cemetery
London Road Cemetery, Coventry
16 min walk • London Road Cemetery is a 17-hectare cemetery in Coventry, England, designed by Joseph Paxton and opened in 1847. It lies south-east of the city centre and is bisected by the West Coast main railway line between Coventry and Rugby, which pre-dates the cemetery and runs roughly west–east through it.