'Allo 'Allo, was made for Henry Thynne and hangs in Longleat House. The nature programme Animal Park is filmed at the park. Longleat Woods Longleat Woods () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1972. Longleat Forest is also home to Center Parcs Longleat Forest, a holiday resort. Visitor attractions Longleat Safari Park opened in 1966 as the first drive-through safari park outside Africa, and is home to over 500 animals, including Rothschild's giraffes, Grant's zebras, Rhesus monkeys, rhinos, African lions, Amur tigers and grey wolves. Cheetahs, koalas and spotted hyenas are among the most recent additions to the safari park. Four lion cubs were born in September 2011, making a total of 10 cubs born that year, and Disney named two of them Simba and Nala as part of a co-promotion agreement for the upcoming Lion King 3D film. Longleat House was built in the sixteenth century by Sir John Thynn on the site of a dissolved priory, and in 1949 became the first stately home in Britain to be opened to the public on a commercial basis. The house, park and attractions are open from mid-February to the start of November each year. The 9,800-acre estate, of which the park occupies 900 acres, has long been one of the top British tourist attractions, and has motivated other large landowners to generate income from their heritage in response to rising maintenance costs. Longleat leases 400 acres of land to Center Parcs for the operation of the Longleat Forest holiday village. The Longleat hedge maze is considered the world's longest, with 1.69 miles of pathway. The layout was by maze designer Greg Bright. Over 16,000 English yews form the walls surrounding a central tower, and there are six raised footbridges. References External links Elizabethan architecture Country houses in Wiltshire Grade I listed houses Grade I listed buildings in Wiltshire Grade I listed parks and gardens in Wiltshire Buildings and structures completed in 1580 Mazes Thynne family Historic house museums in Wiltshire Gardens by Capability Brown