Zoo

Harewood House

Q: Where is Harewood House?

United Kingdom. Harewood House is a zoo or wildlife park in the United Kingdom, at Harewood. Its coordinates are 53.897° N, 1.527° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Snowdonia National Park, about 189 km away.

Q: What animals can you see at Harewood House?

7 species. Citizen-science photos record 7 species at Harewood House, including Grey Crowned Crane, Helmeted Guineafowl, Humboldt Penguin, Chilean Flamingo and Blue-and-yellow Macaw. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.

Q: Where can you see the animals of Harewood House in the wild?

Grey Crowned Crane: Amboseli National Park. Some of the animals photographed at Harewood House also live in the parks and cities we cover: Grey Crowned Crane (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Amboseli National Park), Helmeted Guineafowl (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Meru National Park) and Chilean Flamingo (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Lauca National Park).

Q: When did Harewood House open and how big is it?

Opened 1771, 610 ha. Harewood House, a zoo or wildlife park in the United Kingdom, opened in 1771 and covers about 610 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 7 species are photographed there.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, United Kingdom 7 spp. present

Harewood House ( HAR-wuud, HAIR-) is a country house in Harewood, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built between 1759 and 1771, for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, a wealthy West Indian plantation and slave owner. The landscape was designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown and spans 1,000 acres (400 hectares) at Harewood. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

53.897° N 1.527° W

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Essentials

Entrance

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Tourism

High

Species present

species

Opened

1771

Size

Large

Visit

Getting there

Address: Harewood

harewood.org ↗

Who runs it

Owned by: Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood

What visitors say

🦒 Animals in captivity

Balearica regulorum

Daily sighting probability ~70% · Very likely

in Amboseli National Park+ 25 more parks

Numida meleagris

Daily sighting probability ~80% · Very likely

in Meru National Park+ 56 more parks

Spheniscus humboldti

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare

in Lima

Phoenicopterus chilensis

Daily sighting probability ~50% · Likely

in Lauca National Park+ 4 more parks

Ara ararauna

Daily sighting probability ~80% · Very likely

in Emas National Park+ 12 more parks

Rollulus rouloul

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare

in Taman Negara National Park+ 2 more parks · Nearby records

Phasianidae

Daily sighting probability —

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Before you go

Where is Harewood House?

United Kingdom

Harewood House is a zoo or wildlife park in the United Kingdom, at Harewood. Its coordinates are 53.897° N, 1.527° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Snowdonia National Park, about 189 km away.

What animals can you see at Harewood House?

7 species

Citizen-science photos record 7 species at Harewood House, including Grey Crowned Crane, Helmeted Guineafowl, Humboldt Penguin, Chilean Flamingo and Blue-and-yellow Macaw. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.

Where can you see the animals of Harewood House in the wild?

Grey Crowned Crane: Amboseli National Park

Some of the animals photographed at Harewood House also live in the parks and cities we cover: Grey Crowned Crane (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Amboseli National Park), Helmeted Guineafowl (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Meru National Park) and Chilean Flamingo (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Lauca National Park).

When did Harewood House open and how big is it?

Opened 1771, 610 ha

Harewood House, a zoo or wildlife park in the United Kingdom, opened in 1771 and covers about 610 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 7 species are photographed there.