36-521: YWP may refer to: Yorkshire Wildlife Park , a wildlife park and tourist attraction in Branton, South Yorkshire, England YWP, the IATA code for Webequie Airport , Ontario, Canada Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title YWP . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
72-469: A dedicated link to the East Coast Main Line . On 15 August 2014, Jestream 31 G–GAVA, operating a Links Air flight from Belfast City Airport , crashed on landing at the airport following a landing gear failure; this caused substantial damage to the aircraft. One passenger was taken to hospital with minor injuries. The airport was closed for several hours. In 2007, the airport featured in
108-689: A 10-metre (33 ft) long glass wall. The 6,000-square-metre (65,000 sq ft) enclosure is claimed to be the largest leopard enclosure in the world. In July 2014, the park opened a large enclosure for polar bears, named Project Polar , with the first bear being 500 kg male Victor; a second arrived in March 2015 called Pixel, who is Victor's grandson. On 15 April 2015, Yorkshire Wildlife Park announced that one of its Amur tigers had given birth to three cubs on 29 March 2015. The park's popularity surged soon after its opening, starting in 2009 with only 66,000 visitors; it hosted 323,000 in 2011. In 2021,
144-606: A South America-themed restaurant called "¡caramba!". In August 2021, two cotton-top tamarins were born. In early October, a Venezuelan red howler was born, named Pablo. Opened in Easter 2013, the Baboon Reserve houses a troop of Guinea baboons which came from Edinburgh Zoo . Leopard Heights houses one Amur leopards , named Drake. In 2021, Drake's breeding partner, Freya, moved on to Tayto Park in Ireland, having previously parented
180-457: A Yorkshire Forward grant. The site was renovated over the 2008–2009 winter, and officially opened by Justin Fletcher , MBE (also known as Mr Tumble from CBeebies ) on 4 April 2009. In February 2010, the park rescued 13 lions from a Romanian zoo and, after their quarantine period, released them into the newly built 10-acre (4.0 ha) Lion Country enclosure. In 2011, the zoo opened Land of
216-566: A former tiger, who died in 2021, previously bred in 2016 with Tschuna, to have 3 cubs – Harley, Hector and Hope. All three cubs have since moved on to other collections in the UK, France and the United States. Opened in August 2014, Project Polar houses six male polar bears named Pixel, Nissan, Nobby, Hamish, Indie and Yuma. These were the only polar bears in an English zoo until Peak Wildlife Park announced
252-474: A litter of cubs in June 2015. The enclosure is 6,000 square metres in size, features climbing frames up to ten metres tall, and cost £300,000 to build. The first part of Yorkshire Wildlife Park's 2020 expansion to open, Hyenas of Harar is home to a breeding clan of Spotted Hyenas . The second part to this expansion, Simien Mountains was also opened in 2020. This precinct is themed around the foothills of Ethiopia and
288-588: A road to it was completed in 2018. Doncaster railway station on the East Coast Main Line , and the Frenchgate Interchange are 7 mi (11 km) away. The airport abuts the Doncaster to Lincoln railway line , and plans for a station to replace one that closed in 1961 were granted planning permission in 2008. However, a 2012 report by Network Rail stated that more trains on the line would be required to make it viable. There have been proposals for
324-428: A single runway designated 02/20, with dimensions of 2,895 by 60 m (9,498 by 197 ft). It was designed for long-range nuclear armed bombers and so is wider than other commercial airports in the north of England. The passenger terminal had 24 check-in desks, six departure gates and three baggage carousels . A 102 bed Ramada Encore hotel opened in 2008. It is situated less than ten minutes walk from
360-511: Is a zoo, wildlife conservation and rehabilition centre and tourist attraction located in Branton , south-east of Doncaster , South Yorkshire , England. It opened in 2009 on the site of Brockholes Farm, a former riding school and petting zoo , and features 500 animals of 100 species. Yorkshire Wildlife Park is an official member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) and
396-508: Is an enclosure for the critically endangered black rhinoceros . Themed around the scrublands of East Africa, the enclosure has space for two rhinos and features several mud wallows and a large, open grassland space. Land of the Tigers houses two Amur tigers : Sayan and Tschuna. The enclosure features two pools and a waterfall, as well as a 150-metre walkway for visitors. The tigers can often be seen playing together or even climbing trees. Vladamir,
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#1732880544701432-459: Is home to a large troop of geladas . The third 2020 expansion, Himalayan Pass, has a mountainous theme and includes an exhibit for red pandas and a mixed-species exhibit displaying binturong and a family of smooth-coated otters . In May 2021, the park opened the new Point Lobos expansion featuring a family of six California sea lions . The sea lions arrived from ZSL Whipsnade Zoo . The exhibit holds three million litres of water, making it
468-602: The BBC Two documentary Should I Really Give Up Flying? Brian Blessed explored local attitudes to flying. It has been a location for television series including ITV 's Emmerdale , BBC One 's drama Hustle , and In the Club . The airport appeared in Four Lions and was a settings for the BBC mockumentary Come Fly with Me . Matt Lucas and David Walliams spent two weeks at
504-490: The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). The Yorkshire Wildlife Park was built on land formerly occupied by the 260-acre (110 ha) Brockholes Farm Visitor Centre and Riding School, and currently occupies about 100 acres (40 ha) of the site. Cheryl Williams, Neville Williams, John Minion and Stephen Minion purchased the site in 2008 with funding from Lloyds TSB Commercial, private investment, and
540-988: The Second World War the airfield was primarily used for training, serving RAF Bomber Command crews; only a few combat missions took off. It was a key facility for nuclear-armed Vulcan bombers in the Cold War before downgrade to training in the 1970s / 1980s and decommissioning by 1995. The long runway was a Space Shuttle emergency landing site . Following the end of scheduled services from Sheffield City Airport , Peel Group opened former RAF Finningley as Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield in April 2005. The Robin Hood label controversially referenced historical accounts placing him in nearby Barnsdale Forest not Sherwood Forest but 11,000 people petitioned to oppose
576-561: The African savannah. Species in the enclosure include a bachelor group of giraffes , Kafue lechwe , Grévy's zebra and common eland . The giraffe group have a separate paddock for the winter months, with regular access to the much larger savannah themed exhibit. The park has three giraffes, Jengo and Palle, both of the Reticulated subspecies and Jambo, of the Rothschild's subspecies. Opposite
612-641: The Romanian zoo could not adequately care for them. As of October 2022, there were five lions in Lion Country: Simba, Carla, Crystal, Julie and Ares. Simba died at the age of 14 in October 2023. The park is set to rescue a lioness and her 3 cubs from Ukraine. They hope to have them before Christmas. Lemur Woods is a walk-through enclosure with many trees, housing groups of crowned , ring-tailed and red-bellied lemurs . The lemurs can often be seen climbing high in
648-523: The Terminal building but is now used to hold immigrants awaiting decisions on their asylum cases. There are four on-site car parks. In 2014, a 10-hectare (25-acre) site on the airport's business park became part of Sheffield City Region Enterprise Zone . No. 3 Hangar was occupied by 2Excel Aviation providing Design, production and Maintenance services. Defence company BAE Systems formerly operated its Aircraft Maintenance Academy from No. 3 Hangar at
684-504: The Tigers , which contains two pools and a waterfall and was created next to a wetland reserve. Visitors view the tigers from a 150-metre (490 ft) long raised walkway, with the tiger enclosure on one side of the walkway and the wetlands on the other. In March 2012, the park opened Leopard Heights , a £300,000 open-topped enclosure that lets visitors view the Amur leopards from an 8-metre (26 ft) viewing tower or from ground level through
720-471: The Vulcan bomber fleet, restored to flight by the trust in 2007. XH558's final flight was a display over the airport, on 28 October 2015. In 2022, the trust announced it would leave the airport because its lease could not be renewed. Nevertheless, as of October 2024, the trust and XH558 remained at the airport awaiting negotiations with a new operator. The airport is close to M18 motorway junction 3 and
756-506: The airport had been signed. She subsequently stated an operator had been identified and that she hoped the airport could re-open by Spring 2026. On 12 November 2024, the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority agreed to £3m funding of reinstatement activities and commercial negotiation, as part of a £138m budget to re-open the airport. Flydoncaster Ltd was incorporated on 8 November 2024. The airport has
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#1732880544701792-459: The airport, before moving to Humberside Airport . Other companies that operated within the hangars included Bespoke Training Systems Limited, a Cessna Citation service centre. The airport was home to Yorkshire Aero Club and Hummingbird Helicopters. In 2011, the Vulcan to the Sky Trust flew Avro Vulcan XH558 to the airport, its former operational base. It was the last airworthy example of
828-680: The arrival of 3 polar bears in July 2023. The largest enclosure is ten acres in size and features two pools, the largest of which is eight metres deep and contains 25.5 million gallons of water. This is one of the largest polar bear enclosures in the world and one of the few zoos to house the species in the UK as of 2020. In 2021, the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre was converted into a Project Polar 2. The two-part exhibit houses female Polar Bear Flocke and one of her three cubs, Tala. (The other two cubs from Flocke are Indy and Yuma, who have since moved over to
864-532: The bachelor paddocks.) The family arrived from Antibes and bring the number of Polar Bears at the park to eight – making YWP the largest holder of the species outside of Canada. South America Viva is a walk-through enclosure displaying several South American species, including Patagonian mara , white-faced saki , Azara's agouti and capybara . There are also separate enclosures housing six-banded armadillos , Venezuelan red howlers , cotton-top tamarins , giant otters and giant anteaters , which are situated near
900-613: The closure process but was refused. In response, the Mayor of Doncaster announced the council's intention to compulsory purchase . Nevertheless, air traffic control was withdrawn from the airport in December 2022, and the Civil Aviation Authority began to reclassify surrounding airspace. After protracted negotiation, in March 2024 the Mayor confirmed a 125 year lease to take over
936-528: The end of flights from the airport stating the airport operators were "unable to guarantee the terms of its commercial agreement". That left TUI Airways as the airport's sole regular customer. After an extended review and public consultation, Peel proposed an expansion of their adjacent Gateway East property development and the airport closed. TUI operated the final flights on 4 November 2022, and Wizz Air transfered its routes to Leeds Bradford Airport . Doncaster Council applied for judicial review of
972-474: The largest filtered sea lion exhibit in the world. Themed around the titular stretch of Californian coastline, Point Lobos is a two-acre, two-lake reserve with stony beach areas and several small islands. Guests can watch sea lions swimming from raised paths around the lake. The Rehabilitation Centre is an educational facility to educate visitors on the park's global conservation efforts and rescue work focused on animals in poor conditions in other collections. Over
1008-402: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=YWP&oldid=1075832349 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Yorkshire Wildlife Park The Yorkshire Wildlife Park
1044-513: The name. Promoters initially hoped for 25 million passengers a year. In 2007, one million used the airport. This decreased to 700,000 in 2012, before increasing to just 1.25 million in 2016. In December 2016, Robin Hood Airport rebranded as Doncaster Sheffield Airport. Flybe closed its facility at the airport in 2019, relocating crew and aircraft, though Wizz Air based two aircraft there in 2020. However in 2022, it too announced
1080-720: The park opened Atlantic Forest in April of that year. The area is themed around the Amazon lowlands and houses several animals from the South American continent, including bush dogs , maned wolf and lowland tapir . Lion Country was opened in May 2010 to house 13 African lions , which were acquired from Oradea Zoological Garden in Romania in February 2010. The lions had been kept in small enclosures and poor living conditions, and were in poor health as
1116-433: The park opened its new entrance to the east of the zoo. "The Yorkshire Hive", a new entrance area provides a modern entrance to the park. Guest facilities include a larger car park, retail, dining, coffee shops and ticket centre. The Yorkshire Hive is free to enter. In 2022, the park added a new restaurant, and an overnight hotel, servicing the park and the nearby Doncaster Sheffield Airport . Another new addition in 2021,
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1152-592: The park's collection include Bennett's wallabies and swamp wallabies , African wild dogs , Visayan warty pigs , Bactrian camels , okapi , roloway monkeys , kirk's dik-dik , the various species of reptiles and invertebrates featured in handling and educational displays and the newest arrival the Cheetah . Those listed in italics contain more than 5000 animals Doncaster Sheffield Airport Doncaster Sheffield Airport ( IATA : DSA , ICAO : EGCN ), formerly named and commonly referred to as Robin Hood Airport ,
1188-550: The park. The next resident was a fifth male polar bear, called Rasputin, who arrived in late 2019. Rasputin moved to a zoo in Estonia early in 2021. After Rasputin's departure, the Rehabilitation Centre was converted into the second Project Polar reserve, to house Flocke and her cubs, who Rasputin had fathered at their previous zoo. Currently, Flocke and her daughter Tala reside in the second reserve. Other notable animals in
1224-510: The trees, or sunbathing on the ground. Twice a day, visitors can stand and watch the keepers feed the Lemurs. They get very close – within touching distance – and it's one of the popular areas of the park. Located close to the old entrance to the park, this small exhibit houses the zoo's meerkats The centrepiece of the Into Africa zone is African Plains, a large multi-species paddock themed around
1260-522: The years, the Centre has exhibited several rescued species in a series of large, temporary exhibits. The rehomed species are often held until they can move elsewhere in the park, or until new homes in other zoos are found. The first residents were four Ussuri brown bears rescued from a zoo in Japan. However, all four were elderly and in poor health upon their arrival and the last died eighteen months after coming to
1296-700: Was an international airport in Finningley near Doncaster in South Yorkshire , England, in operation between 2005 and 2022. The site lies 6 mi (10 km) south-east of the centre of Doncaster and 19 mi (31 km) east of Sheffield . The airport was opened as Finningley Airfield in 1915. During the First World War , it was a base for the Royal Flying Corps to intercept German Zeppelins targeting industrial cities of Northern England . In
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