# Tilgate Nature Centre

- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Coordinates:** 51.093556, -0.183262
- **Opened:** 1973
- **Website:** [https://tilgatenaturecentre.wordpress.com/ Tilgate Zoo Website]
- **Exhibits:** African, American, Australasian, Madagascan, European, and Domestic Zone, "Animal Adoptions", "Meet the Meerkats", "Junior Keeper for a Day"
- **Location:** Tilgate Park, Tilgate Drive, Crawley, West Sussex, England
- **Zoo Name:** Tilgate Zoo
- **Logo Width:** 200px
- **Date Opened:** 1973
- **Image Width:** 300px
- **Num Species:** 74
- **Annual Visitors:** 70000

Tilgate Zoo is a small BIAZA-accredited zoo located within Tilgate Park in Tilgate Forest, South-East Crawley, West Sussex, England. The zoo holds 74 different animal species (in 2026), and is involved in several programmes to preserve threatened wild species from extinction. left|200px|thumb|Ring-tailed lemur right|thumb|240px|Meet the Meerkats

![Photo of Tilgate Nature Centre](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Tilgate_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_402751.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilgate_Nature_Centre (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)