Paradise Wildlife Park

Going back over 50 years to the early 1960's you would have found a very different Zoo located on the current site of Paradise Wildlife Park.
Broxbourne Zoo, as it was then known, was privately owned by Cyril Stamp up to the mid 70s and then Peter Phipps to 1984.Unfortunately a day out at Broxbourne Zoo was remembered for very different reasons to those attributed to a day out at Paradise Wildlife Park. The zoo was notorious for poor animal facilities and by the early 1980s was widely regarded and documented as the worst zoo in Britain. Thankfully, the Sampson family saw through the terrible reputation of Broxbourne Zoo when they purchased the site on the 1st April 1984. They could see the potential of the area for creating a Zoo the country could be proud of, with conservation and preservation of both rare and endangered animal species at its heart. With the Sampson’s drive and passion for wildlife, the unbelievable transformation had begun.