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knowsley safari park AddressPrescot, Merseyside L34 4AN - England, UK Phone: +44 (0)151 4309009 - Fax: +44 (0)151 4263677 Area: OPENING Open daily from 10.00am to 4.00pm from March to October. During the safari, strict in-car security is applied and you may not leave the car. A five mile safari in the comfort of your own car through 450 acres of countryside devoted entirely to wildlife in a natural free setting. There are majestic Indian tigers, a pride of lions, monkeys and baboons, camels and elephants roaming free. Knowsley Park was, more than 150 years ago Edward Lord Stanley, the thirteenth Earl of Derby kept a huge private zoo here - one of the largest in the world at the time. It covered almost 100 acres of Knowsley estate and it included 94 species of mammals and 318 species of birds, which even today would make it the largest bird collection in Britain, and the third largest mammal.
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