Chester Zoo


Chester Zoo

Chester Zoo is a zoo in the English town of Upton-by-Chester. George Mottershead and his family founded Chester Zoo in 1931.With 51 hectares, it is one of the largest zoos in the United Kingdom (130 acres). The zoo owns approximately 160 hectares of land in total (400 acres). The North of England Zoological Society, a registered charity founded in 1934, runs Chester Zoo. The zoo is not supported by the government. With over 2 million visitors in 2019, it is the most visited wildlife attraction in the United Kingdom. Forbes named it one of the world's top fifteen zoos in 2007.  TripAdvisor named it the best zoo in the UK and the third best in the world in 2017.


History
History from the beginning
The Mottershead family ran a market garden in Shavington, near Crewe. George Mottershead collected animals such as lizards and insects that arrived with the company's exotic plants. A childhood visit to Manchester's Belle Vue Zoo in 1903 fueled his growing desire to establish his own zoo. Mottershead was injured during World War I and spent several years in a wheelchair. Despite this, his animal collection grew, and he began to look for a suitable home for his zoo. He chose Oakfield Manor in Upton-by-Chester, which was a country village at the time but is now a Chester suburb. In 1930, he paid £3,500 for Oakfield Manor. The house had 9 acres (3.6 ha) of gardens and was close to the railways, as well as Manchester and Liverpool. Locals objected, but Mottershead prevailed, and Chester Zoo opened to the public on June 10, 1931. The first animals were displayed in the courtyard in pens. 
An Ordnance Survey inch-a-mile map published in 1936 shows the area around as farmland and villages and marks the present Zoo area north of Oakfield as "Butter Hill". Despite the difficulty of obtaining materials, rapid expansion followed after WWII. Mottershead had to be inventive; the polar bear exhibit (1950) was constructed from recycled wartime road blocks and pillboxes. "Always building," the zoo's slogan at the time. Mottershead was awarded the OBE.


Zoo layout
Mottershead desired to construct a zoo without the traditional Victorian iron bars used to confine the animals. He was influenced by the ideas of Carl Hagenbeck, the creator of the modern zoo concept, and Heini Hediger, an ethologist. Mottershead expanded on Hagenbeck's idea for moats and ditches as an alternative to cage bars at Chester, using them with species that Hagenbeck had not considered. When chimps were released into their new Chester enclosure in 1956, a group of grassy islands, they were separated from visitors by only a 12-foot (3.7 m) strip of water. Nobody knew if chimps could swim back then. They were unable to do so, and the chimp islands are now a focal point of Chester Zoo.
In accordance with the Zoo Licensing Act 1981, the zoo was fenced in in 1986.


Organizational structure of management
The North of England Zoological Society (NEZS) operates Chester Zoo as well as the conservation campaign Act for Wildlife. George Mottershead, the zoo's founder, founded it in 1934. The zoo is managed by an executive team led by Jamie Christon, CEO, who reports to The North of England Zoological Society's Board of Trustees. Jamie is in charge of the One Plan Business model, which supports the Strategic Development Plan and Conservation Masterplan. The executive focuses on education and change through its people and culture. The zoo employs over 650 permanent employees, with a peak of over 1,000 during the summer season, making it the largest zoo in the UK.

Hour
Tuesday 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Wednesday 10AM–4:30PM
Thursday 10AM–4:30PM
Friday 10AM–4:30PM
Saturday 10AM–4:30PM
Sunday 10AM–4:30PM
Monday 10AM–4:30PM

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