Whipsnade
Whipsnade is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, about 2+1⁄2 miles south-south-west of Dunstable on the top of the Dunstable Downs, which drop away steeply to the south of the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Skinner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 279 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK
- Also known as: “Whipsnade, Bedfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary Magdalen and Whipsnade Zoo.
Whipsnade Zoo
Zoo
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whipsnade Zoo, formerly known as ZSL Whipsnade Zoo and Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, is a zoo located in Whipsnade, near Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England.
Whipsnade Tree Cathedral
Nature reserve
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whipsnade Tree Cathedral is a 9.5-acre garden in the village of Whipsnade in Bedfordshire, England. It is planted in the approximate form of a cathedral, with grass avenues for nave, chancel, transepts, chapels and cloisters and "walls" of different species of trees.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holywell and Kensworth.
Holywell
Village
Photo: Robin Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holywell is a hamlet located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. The settlement is close to Whipsnade and Studham, and Holywell forms part of the Studham civil parish.
Kensworth
Village
Photo: Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kensworth is a village and civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. The parish is located on the edge of Dunstable Downs, and includes the hamlets of California and Kensworth Lynch.
Studham
Village
Photo: Robin Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Studham is a village and civil parish in the county of Bedfordshire. It has a population of 1,182. The parish bounds to the south of the Buckinghamshire border, and to the east is the Hertfordshire border.
Whipsnade
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Whipsnade, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.85032° or 51° 51′ 1″ northLongitude
-0.53404° or 0° 32′ 3″ westPopulation
279Elevation
705 feet (215 metres)Open location code
9C3XVF28+49OpenStreetMap ID
node 241928144OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2634149Wikidata ID
Q1519560
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Whipsnade” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وهيبسند”
- Belarusian: “Уіпснейд”
- Belarusian: “Ўіпснэйд”
- Cebuano: “Whipsnade”
- Chinese: “Whipsnade”
- Danish: “Whipsnade”
- Dutch: “Whipsnade”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وهيبسند”
- French: “Whipsnade”
- Hebrew: “ויפסנייד”
- Irish: “Whipsnade”
- Italian: “Whipsnade”
- Ladin: “Whipsnade”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Whipsnade”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whipsnade”
- Norwegian: “Whipsnade”
- Persian: “ویپسنید”
- Polish: “Whipsnade”
- Swedish: “Whipsnade”
- Turkish: “Whipsnade”
- Welsh: “Whipsnade”
- “Whipsnade”
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