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Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre, Sevenoaks. Courtesy of Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre

Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre

1 Jan - 30 Nov 2009 (annual)

Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre is home to around 150 birds including Tawny and Golden eagles, Peregrine falcons, an Andean condor and owls. Visitors can watch flying demonstrations and…

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A tiger at Isle of Wight Zoo. Courtesy of Isle of Wight Tourism

Isle of Wight Zoo

14 Feb - 1 Dec 2009 (annual)

Sandown's Isle of Wight Zoo is best known for its work with exotic cats - it's the location for ITV's fly-on-the-wall documentary Tiger Island. Among other residents are Madagascan Lemurs…

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Down House, Bromley. Courtesy of Down House

Down House

13 Feb - 21 Dec 2009 (annual)

Step into Charles Darwin's slippers and explore Down House, in which he wrote and researched his revolutionary On The Origin of Species series. Watch bees building their honeycomb or pace his…

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WDCS Wildlife Centre

1 Feb - 31 Dec 2009 (annual)

If you're lucky, from February to December you might see dolphins, porpoises, whales and seals in the Moray Firth, with some help from the Moray Firth WDCS Wildlife Centre. Boat trips are one…

Spa Valley Railway, Tunbridge Wells. Courtesy of Heart of Kent/www.visitheartofkent.org.uk

Spa Valley Railway

1 Mar - 31 Dec 2009 (annual)

Take a steam train ride on the Spa Valley Railway. Visit High Rocks, a series of sandstone rocks once used as a stone age camp, or Groombridge Place's Gardens & Enchanted Forest. Trips run at…

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Farne Islands Nature Reserve

Apr - Sep 2010 (annual)

The Farne Islands are a little-known National Nature Reserve where visitors can see puffins, Atlantic seals and rare and beautiful seabirds.

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A lovely otter in Buckfastleigh, Devon Photo credit to Buckfastleigh Otter Sanctuary

Buckfastleigh Butterflies and Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary

Mar - Oct 2010 (annual)

At Buckfastleigh's Steam and Leisure Park, near Totnes, the butterflies' natural habitat has been reconstructed using high temperatures, humidity and tropical plants, and the antics of the…

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Lakeland Motor Museum at Holker Hall photo courtesy Cumbria Tourist Board

Lakeland Motor Museum

Feb - Nov 2010 (annual)

The Lakeland Motor Museum in Holker Hall's shire-horse stables houses 30,000 motor items and includes full-sized replicas of Malcolm and Donald Campbell's speed record-breakers.

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Groombridge Place Gardens & Enchanted Forest, Tunbridge Wells. Courtesy of Heart of Kent/www.visitheartofkent.org.uk

Groombridge Place Gardens & Enchanted Forest

Mar - Nov 2010 (annual)

Kiera Knightley and co filmed Pride and Prejudice in and around the untouched 17th-century moated Groombridge Place manor house. In spring, thousands of flowers carpet the Formal Gardens. The…

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Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre, Sevenoaks. Courtesy of Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre

Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre

Jan - Nov 2010 (annual)

Eagle Heights Birds of Prey Centre is home to around 150 birds including Tawny and Golden eagles, Peregrine falcons, an Andean condor and owls. Visitors can watch flying demonstrations and…

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A tiger at Isle of Wight Zoo. Courtesy of Isle of Wight Tourism

Isle of Wight Zoo

Feb - Dec 2010 (annual)

Sandown's Isle of Wight Zoo is best known for its work with exotic cats - it's the location for ITV's fly-on-the-wall documentary Tiger Island. Among other residents are Madagascan Lemurs…

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Down House, Bromley. Courtesy of Down House

Down House

Feb - Dec 2010 (annual)

Step into Charles Darwin's slippers and explore Down House, in which he wrote and researched his revolutionary On The Origin of Species series. Watch bees building their honeycomb or pace his…

57.671166
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WDCS Wildlife Centre

Feb - Dec 2010 (annual)

If you're lucky, from February to December you might see dolphins, porpoises, whales and seals in the Moray Firth, with some help from the Moray Firth WDCS Wildlife Centre. Boat trips are one…

Spa Valley Railway, Tunbridge Wells. Courtesy of Heart of Kent/www.visitheartofkent.org.uk

Spa Valley Railway

Mar - Dec 2010 (annual)

Take a steam train ride on the Spa Valley Railway. Visit High Rocks, a series of sandstone rocks once used as a stone age camp, or Groombridge Place's Gardens & Enchanted Forest. Trips run at…

Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland. Courtesy of www.MourneMountains.com

Mourne Mountains

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An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the rugged Mourne Mountains comprise beautiful forests, sandy beaches and 12 mountains, including Slieve Donard. At 850 metres high this is Northern…

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Loch Morlich with the Cairngorms Mountain Range in the background. © Will Boyd-Wallis

Cairngorms National Park

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One of Britain's newest national parks, Cairngorms National Park is the country's largest, totalling an impressive 3800 square kilometres of remote mountains and moors across Scotland's…

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Talybont Reservoir on The Taff Trail, Wales. © HazelGold Limited

The Taff Trail

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Established in the early 1990s, The Taff Trail offers walkers and cyclists the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful Welsh countryside at any time. The trail's canals, forest tracks and disused…

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Sailing on the Norfolk Broads. Courtesy of www.britainonview.com

Norfolk Broads

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The Norfolk Broads are the UK's largest protected wetland and wildlife haven. Manmade in medieval times when locals dug the area for peat, they were later flooded and used by the Victorians…

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A view over Ullswater - typcial of the Lake District in Summer. Photo Ben Barden. Courtesy of Cumbria Tourist Board

Lake District National Park

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Founded in 1951, the Lake District National Park encompasses 866 square miles (2292 square km) of Cumbria, within which are 14 major lakes and England's highest peaks. From ten-and-a-half mile…

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Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. © CNPA

Cairngorms National Park

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Cairngorms National Park is Scotland's largest, covering 3800 square kilometres of the Highlands and Grampian regions. With mountains and glens, rivers and lochs, forest and moorland, it is a…