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Tropical Butterfly House and Wildlife Centre

UK visitor attraction

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ136564525 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tropical Butterfly House and Wildlife Centre is a butterfly house and wildlife park in North Anston, South Yorkshire, England.

History

The centre was opened on a 4.5-acre site on 23 March 1994. The site has since grown and has become one of the biggest tourist attractions in the area.

In 2024, the centre won gold at the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums horticulture awards.

In 2023 Wally, a wallaby at the centre, was injured in a fall; after rehabilitation by the park keepers, he was saved from needing a tail amputation. Also in 2023, a common raven named Odin became a viral phenomenon when the centre posted videos of him painting.

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The public source identifies “Tropical Butterfly House and Wildlife Centre” as uK visitor attraction. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tropical, Butterfly and House.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2024, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tropical, Butterfly and House providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136564525. Authority coordinates are 53.354, -1.204. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2024 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tropical Butterfly House and Wildlife Centre” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.