The BIG Sheep

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The BIG Sheep – world famous for the hilarious Sheep Racing!

North Devon’s most popular Family Attraction Terrific for Tots, Toddlers & Teens – Awesome for Adults and Fantastic for Families!

Guaranteed fun ! – Whatever the Weather

This multi award-winning family attraction is guaranteed to be the highlight of your holiday, with hilarious shows, including the World Famous Sheep Racing, Great rides, including the SW’s largest family Roller Coaster, Animal Magic and one of the countries top award winning farm attraction and a brilliant selection of indoor and out door play and activities to keep everyone in the family entertained all day long.

Set in 40 acres of beautifully landscaped parkland, The BIG Sheep has proudly welcomed over 2.5 million visitors during the past 25 years. The attraction was set up to create great holiday memories and the BIG Sheep ‘flock’ look forward to giving visitors to the park a totally EWEnique day out.

The BIG Sheep is home to Devon’s most popular and largest roller coaster with swoops, turns and drops full of family thrills and views across the lake to many of the park’s attractions. Their other rides include The Twister, a flying chairoplane ride, A lakeside Train and even a Tractor Safari around the farm to meet many of the friendly animals.

With 12 hilarious shows, all with undercover viewing area, visitors will enjoy some of the most EWEnique events ever seen in the UK. Shows include the world famous sheep race - a hysterical sporting event with sheep and jockeys, sheep from around the world strutting their stuff on stage, sheep and duck trials, sheep shearing, the lamb bottle feeding show.

If you fancy a bit of outdoor play, you can bounce as high as you can on the giant jumping pillows, enjoy battlefield live in its theme war zone, get wet and wild in the splash zone or try your skills at archery tag. 

Children can enjoy the magic of a real farm – newborn lambs for most of the year and other baby farm animals to feed and cuddle at Pet’s Corner.  Don’t forget to bring your camera to capture some magical moments and sheep selfies.  All the resident animals in the animal barn – puppies, chicks, rabbits, lambs and miniature ponies allow you to get up close and personal.

Gentle rides for toddlers and younger children include Piggy Pull-Along, Tractor Safari, self-drive Tractor Track, Pony Rides and Vintage Pony and Swan Boats on the lake. 

Ewetopia, a massive indoor adventure play zone is where children (and lively adults) can burn off some energy on a selection of great slides and imaginative soft play climbing areas, tumble towers, mazes and obstacles.

The more adventurous visitor we work with an adjacent extreme activity centre and you can try some taster sessions on the 45ft climbing wall and master the art of mountain boarding and low ropes course (in school summer holidays, only)

The restaurant and café serves up menus of delicious homemade food, cakes and our legendary Devonshire Cream Teas and a variety of fast food, and there’s a well -maintained picnic area too.