Here are some pictures of the village in its original place, plus images from the zoo.
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You will love these picture memories of Haigh Hall's model village and zoo in the 1980s and '90s
By Charles Graham
Published 26th Oct 2025, 07:30 GMT
The landscape of Haigh Woodland Park is continuing to change and in the coming days work will begin on the abandoned Bothy Yard, turning it into a base for training and education, community activities, volunteering, an office for the site team and flexible spaces to support the events programme. But long ago the site was home to a zoo and later a model village, the latter of which had been resurrected after a stint at another nearby site in the 1980s.