Discover Wraxall

The Church of All Saints on Wraxall Hill and Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm offer different points of interest: listed church architecture and a zoo with an education centre. The wider region also has historical and landscape attractions, as well as historical traces at Watercatch. For planning, it may help to decide on your interests first, then consider your accommodation and stay together.

Church architecture and history

The Church of All Saints on Wraxall Hill is a Grade I listed building. The inner arch above the main entrance is Norman in style and dates from around 1150. This date applies to the arch, not automatically to the entire church building. The church tower has a peal of eight bells in E-flat major. The reredos is made of Bath stone and depicts the Transfiguration of Christ. These bring together several aspects: the design of a specific architectural feature, the bells and the subject of the altarpiece. If you are interested in church architecture, you can place the arch in its historical context and consider it as a distinct point of interest alongside the bells and the reredos.

Zoo and ingredient sourcing

Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm is a zoo and education centre in Wraxall. Another aspect is its food offering: currently, much of the pork, beef and lamb used there comes from animals raised at Moat House Farm in Wraxall. If this sourcing is important to your plans, check the current information before your visit, as suppliers and menus may change. This lets you consider the zoo and the sourcing of some of the ingredients used as separate aspects of your stay.

Tyntesfield and Watercatch

The Pavilion Café at Tyntesfield currently has outdoor seating only; general admission is required to use it. If you would like to stop there, take both conditions into account when planning and check the information before your visit.

The Tyntesfield Watercatch Walk passes Second World War remains. At Watercatch, the floors of large Nissen huts dating from 1944 can be seen. For walkers with an interest in history, the route description connects with a specific historical subject; the date of the hut floors gives that subject a precise time reference.

Landscape and traces of the Iron Age

In the wider region, an Iron Age fortified settlement lies 400 m south of Manor Farm. It is a Scheduled Monument and is located in an elevated area of Carboniferous limestone. The details use different reference points: Manor Farm serves as a location reference for the settlement, while the elevated Carboniferous limestone area describes its landscape setting. This makes it possible to distinguish the settlement as a historical point of interest in its own right from the church and the remains at Watercatch. The historical references therefore range from the Iron Age settlement in the wider region, to the church arch dating from around 1150, to the Nissen hut floors from 1944.

Search for hotels in Wraxall

When searching for hotels in Wraxall, you can start with your interests: are the church and its architecture, Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm or the historical attractions your main focus? This helps you tailor your choice to the things that really matter for your stay.

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