Tired of the straight laced and busy work week? Why not monkey around on one of the most peculiar days out in Great Britain? Just north of Birmingham on M6 you can do exactly that. Monkey forest is set in sixty acres of gorgeous Staffordshire wood and meadows where 140 monkeys live in total liberty.Days out in the UK can be really fun, and with the monkeys at this site you’ll have plenty of fun with your family.
You are dropped into the Barbary macaques entrancing world as you hear rustling in the trees, chattering in a bizarre language and see the monkeys crashing thru branches. To your right there’s a male carrying a baby on his back, on your left are 2 females grooming one another, and in the trees are young monkeys doing acrobatics between the branches. Monkey Forest is within the internationally renowned Trentham Gardens near Staffordshire.
The gardens and park at Trentham currently cover some three hundred acres. They were designed as a serpentine park by Capability Brown and Henry Holland from 1758 onwards, overlying an earlier formal design traced to Charles Bridgeman. But in the 20th century Trentham Gardens was essentially renowned for the surviving formal gardens laid out in the 1840s by Sir Charles Barry, who also made Italianate gardens at Harewood House and Cliveden. At Monkey Forest the Barbary macaques ramble readily in the wooded confines as if they were in their environment.
As you enter the park you can study the monkeys living in their engaging society as they might in the Atlas mountains of Algeria and Morocco. The 2 groups come from our existing parks in France and Germany and the monkeys have lived forever in an analogous setting. Our non-invasive policy, where we arbitrate as little as possible enables you to see the monkey’s natural behaviour just as you would in natural settings.
Whether or not you are keen on info boards, video documentaries, or prefer pure observation, Monkey Forest will be one of the most noteworthy days out in England.