Buckfastleigh Butterflies and Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary
Buckfastleigh Butterflies and Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary
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Our travel Tipster spends a morning with the keeper at the Buckfast Butterfly Farm and Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary, to get up close with the resident otters over breakfast.
A real treat for lovers of nature and wildlife, this special experience is a wonderful way to learn about these fascinating creatures.
Situated within the Dartmoor National Park, the Otter Sanctuary has three species for visitors to see, including, the native British Otter, Asian Short Crawled Otters and the large North American River Otters.
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Buckfast Butterflies sanctuary Dartmoor Otters feeding time
Great time at the Buckfast Butterflies sanctuary feeding the Otters
Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary, Buckfastleigh Station, Devon
Please SUBSCRIBE to help keep this Channel Alive. Alongside Buckfastleigh Station, Devon, is the Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary. At feeding time you can hear much information on the otters currently in the sanctuary.
Dartmoor Otters & Buckfast Butterflies
Some clips of the otters and butterflies at buckfastleigh
Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary
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The Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary has been carefully designed to provide our resident otters with the best possible conditions and our visitors excellent opportunities to see and enjoy them. We also have facilities for the treatment of any sick or injured otters that may be brought to us. It is hoped that having seen and enjoyed our resident otters, and been given an insight into their secret way of life, visitors will be more aware of the plight of otters world-wide, particularly of course our own native British Otter Lutra lutra.
The Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctuary is situated just outside the southern border of Dartmoor National Park between Exeter and Plymouth and is easily reached just off the A38 Devon Expressway at the Dart Bridge junction.
hand feeding otters at butterfly and otter sanctuary buckfastleigh
had a lovely day on an otter experience day. was well worth it. cleaning and feeding is a great way to understand them.
Places to see in ( Buckfastleigh - UK )
Places to see in ( Buckfastleigh - UK )
Buckfastleigh is a small market town and civil parish in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. It is part of Teignbridge and, for ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery.
It is a centre of tourism and is home to Buckfast Abbey, the South Devon Railway, the Buckfastleigh Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctuary, the Tomb of Squire Richard Cabell and The Valiant Soldier. With 13 letters, Buckfastleigh is the longest place name in England with no repeated letters, tied with Buslingthorpe, Leeds and Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Geographically, Buckfastleigh straddles the confluence of two small streams from Dartmoor which feed into the River Dart just to the east of the town. About one mile to the north lies Buckfast, home of Buckfast Abbey. To the northwest lie Holne and Scorriton on the southern breastwork of the Dartmoor upland. Pridhamsleigh Cavern is nearby and is neighboured by Ashburton and Lower Dean.
Historically Buckfastleigh has grown as a mill town known for its woollen mills, corn and paper mills and a tannery supported by the rivers Dart, Mardle and the Dean Burn – water being an essential natural resource used in the manufacturing of wool and other products. Buckfastleigh is medieval in origin, as is still evident in the original layout of the town. By the seventeenth century, most of the properties had been rebuilt, but the medieval layout, particularly in Fore Street, is still visible today.
Buckfastleigh town centre is now an area of mostly late eighteenth- to early twentieth-century buildings with an interesting collection of private dwellings, commercial and retail properties and public houses which retain many, if not all, of their original features, styles and character.
To the west of the town is the manor house of Brook, a grade II* listed building, built in 1656 by Richard Cabell (d.1677), lord of the manor of Brook. He was the subject of a local legend which relates that on the night of his death, black hounds breathing fire and smoke raced over Dartmoor and surrounded Brook House, howling. Cabbell's unusual tomb was allegedly designed to keep his restless spirit from roaming Dartmoor. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902) on this legend. The story's description of Baskerville Hall, however, is based on Cromer Hall in Norfolk.
The South Devon Railway Trust is a charitable organisation that operates a heritage railway from Totnes to Buckfastleigh in Devon, alongside the River Dart. The heritage railway itself is known as the South Devon Railway, named in honour of the South Devon Railway Company that originally built much of Devon's railway infrastructure, although its previous name of the Dart Valley Railway is sometimes still heard.
Buckfast Abbey was founded by Earl Aylward in the reign of King Canute in 1018. In 1147 it became a Cistercian abbey and was rebuilt in stone. In medieval times, the abbey became rich through fishing and trading in sheep wool, although the Black Death killed two abbots and many monks – by 1377 there were only fourteen monks at Buckfast.
( Buckfastleigh - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Buckfastleigh . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Buckfastleigh - UK
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Butterfly Hunting at Buckfast Butterfly Farm
A fun family day out at Buckfast Butterfly Farm.
We saw lots of beautiful tropical butterflies!
Definitely worth a visit if you are in Devon!!
Address:
Buckfast Butterflies & Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary
The Station,
Buckfastleigh,
Devon
TQ11 0DZ
Telephone:
01364 642916
Website:
They have an online store where you can buy a butterfly breeding kit/live butterfly kit.
This allows you to watch caterpillars transform into beautiful painted lady butterflies and release them into your garden/the wild!
Buy the kit at the below link:
There is also an otter sanctuary here where you can watch the otters being fed at certain times throughout the day.
You can adopt or sponsor an otter via their website!
Plenty of parking available and close to cafes!
South Devon Railway and Butterfly and Otter Sanctuary
We took advantage of the half term railway offer 'quid a kid' then visit the Butterfly and Otter Sanctuary.
Buckfast Butterfly Farm
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Nosy otter at the Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary
The underwater viewing area at Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary. If you put something in the window they'll pop down to inspect it.
Feeding British otters at Buckfastleigh Otter Sanctuary
Feeding fish to the British otter couple at Buckfastleigh Otter Sanctuary.
otters. hand feeding otters at butterfly and otter sanctuary buckfastleigh
had a great day feeding otters at the sanctuary. getting up close was great to be able to touch there paws was amazing.
Buckfastleigh & Buckfast Abbey, Devon, England
Views of Buckfastleigh & Buckfast Abbey, Devon, England
Buckfastleigh Otter Sanctuary
Mum & Dad at Play
Feeding the Otters in Buckfastleigh
Feeding time at the Otter Reserve in Buckfastleigh. They seem to have a good system of releasing the otters into the wild and breeding them. This is good because they are kind of rough creatures! Not too easy to domesticate. The feeding guy was scared of a few of them.
Jensen sees otters underwater at Buckfastleigh
Jensen aged two is fascinated when the otters swim past him in the underwater viewing area at the Otter and Butterfly Farm at Buckfastleigh in Devon England UK. They have just been fed some fish.
Otters at the Otter and Butterfly Sanctuary and Dorset
This was taken by me in around 2010 when I went there for the first time with my friend.
Feeding North American otters at Buckfastleigh Otter Sanctuary
Two females in heat, and one male in hiding! Feeding during the visitors talk as part of my Otter Experience as Buckfastleigh Otter Sanctuary.