Travel Information

Butterfly World Project will open its doors to the public after the winter of 2012 after a spend of £27 million pounds. Clive Farrell, conceived this vision of having the worlds largest butterfly Biome based in Hertfordshire, England. As you would expect, Clive is a butterfly fanatic and lepidopterist with a project that began in 2008 and is now under completion. The project will be open from 8th April 2011. The Biome can house over 10,000 tropical butterflies with humming birds and other creatures, it is a vast size being 100m wide and 17.5 m high. Expect to see, tropical rainforests settings, underworld caves with insect’s spiders and scorpions. It has canopy walkways with intermittent thunderstorms. This is a really amazing place for the whole family to visit. Patrons who support this project include Sir David Attenborough, Professor Dr David Bellamy, Alan Titchmarsh and many more. The location of Butterfly World Project is well signposted with brown signs and a white butterfly symbol that are visible at most junctions locally. If you are driving on the M1 leave at junction 6 heading towards St Albans. Turn left into Noke Lane (just 300 yards down the road) and continue, take the right turn into Miriam Lane. The entrance to Butterfly World Project is clearly visible just half a mile along Miriam Lane. If you are traveling in your Hertfordshire Motorhome Hire and using the post code for your Sat Nav, it is wise to ignore it when you are close to the venue. Your Sat Nav will take you down Chiswell Green Lane instead of the main entrance. Follow the butterfly signs instead. For more information about this amazing venue click the blue text below.

Butterfly World Project Ltd
2011 Miriam Lane
Off Noke Lane
Chiswell Green
Herts
AL2 3NY

Tel: +44 (0) 1727 869 203

70 million specimens or items, gathered over 400 years. The collections cover virtually all groups of animals, plants, minerals and fossils from all across the world, and even the universe.

Natural History Museum at Tring
The Walter Rothschild building
Akeman Street
Tring
Hertfordshire
HP23 6AP

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7942 6171

13th National Pottery and Ceramics Festival
3rd, 4th & 5th August 2007
Advertised by the organisers as one of the most important events in the ceramics calendar, the 13th National Pottery and Ceramics Festival will take place at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. A weekend to interest potters, enthusiasts and an appreciative public. For more information visit the Art in clay website.

National Pottery and Ceramics Festival
Hatfield House
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
England

Paradise Wildlife Park is a fantastic, fun filled, destination for all the family.

Shepreth is just off the A10 between Cambridge and Royston in Hertfordshire.  The wild life Park began as an animal sanctuary and in 1984 Terry Willers, the owner, decided to open his home to the public in the hope that it would save the animals. It is now expanded to include many different animals, including the recent addition of the Tigers, the rescued Lynx and Mountain Lions. You can hand-feed ponies and goats, the ducks, geese and even the fish in the lake! Make sure that hands are carefully washed afterwards, especially children. They also have a tropical house with turtles, lizards, snakes, fish and even caiman and also the fish, Insects, Invertebrates in Waterworld and Bug City. There is an entrance fee to the park and an additional entrance fee to Waterworld and Bug City. They also have been featured on TV for conservation projects. Many exotic animals seen in the Park come from zoos that have closed down, were unwanted pets or are part of captive breeding programmes. This is a place that will appeal to animal lovers of all ages.  If you are in the area on holiday in your London Motorhome Hire it may be worth a visit. To find out more about opening times and admission prices click on the blue text below.

Shepreth Wildlife Park
Station Road
Shepreth
nr Royston
Herts
SG8 6PZ
United Kingdom.

Telephone:  01763 26 22 26

Whilst touring around Hertfordshire in a camper van St. Albans Cathedral is a fantastic place to spend an afternoon.

St Alban’s Cathedral was constructed from the ruins of a Roman city and dates back to the early 8th century. The UK’s longest nave can be enjoyed from within the Cathedral, measuring 84m. There is even a treasury containing medieval artifacts to be viewed along with a shrine to Alban, a Roman pagan who is regarded as Britain’s first Christian Martyr.

St. Alban’s is also known for being a filming location for several high profile films such as the Nicole Kidman thriller Birthday Girl (2001) and the Rowan Atkinson comedy Johnny English (2003).

Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban
St Albans
Hertfordshire
UK
AL1 1BY

Email: mail@stalbanscathedral.org.uk
Phone: + 44 (0) 1727 860780
Fax: + 44(0) 1727 850944

Independent Contemporary Art Gallery housed in the former home of Victorian diarist the Reverend Francis Kilvert in the village of Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye. A constantly changing collection of contemporary art work.

The Kilvert Gallery
Clyro
Ashbrooke House
nr Hay-on-Wye
Hereford

Telephone: 01497 820831

Verulamium was once one of the major cities in Roman Britain. The museum displays its Roman site heritage and every second weekend in the month, ‘Roman soldiers’ demonstrate the tactics and equipment of the Roman Imperial Army. Check their website for further information and opening times.

Verulamium Museum
St. Michael’s Street
St. Albans
Hertfordshire
AL3 4SW
England
Telephone 01727 751810

Park your Motor Home at the museum nearby and visit this amazing part of a roman villa.

Welwyn Roman Villa
Welwyn By Pass
Welwyn
Hertfordshire
AL6 9NX

Telephone: +44 (0)1707 271362