Lytham Hall
78 acres of free parkland and woodland around a Georgian hall, with a cafe, seasonal trails and cheap pay-and-display parking. The hall tour is the only ticketed bit, and with kids in tow you can happily skip it.
Wild Discovery
- Cost
- Book online, price not listed
- Ages
- 1 to 9
- Where
- Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
- Weather
- Mostly outdoors
- Booking
- Book online
It sits inside Ribby Hall Village near Wrea Green, which throws people, because you do not need to be staying there to go. Anyone can book. It is a proper small zoo rather than a petting corner: a safari walk, an exotic house, a bat house and a farmyard end, with otters, meerkats, wallabies, porcupines, armadillos, pelicans, marmosets and a lot of reptiles.
The scale is the point. You can see all of it without anyone being carried, which at this age matters more than the size of the collection. Keeper talks and feeding times are what lift it, so check the day's board on the way in and plan the loop around them rather than doing laps and hoping.
Prices are not published on the website, which is annoying, and you only see them once you start a booking. Parking is free and the village's cafes and Papa Johns are a two-minute walk, so lunch is sorted without going back to the car.
What it costs: Day pass tickets for adults, children under 16 and a family pass of two adults plus two children. Under-2s go free. Prices are only shown once you start a booking.
Know before you go
- Last entry is an hour before closing, which catches people out on a lazy start. Doors are 10.30am to 5pm, shorter out of season.
- Animal encounters booked from January 2026 onwards no longer include zoo entry, so you need an admission ticket for every person doing the encounter as well.
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