Abbotsbury Swannery

Abbotsbury Swannery

Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset is unique. This is the only place in the world where you are able to walk through the heart of a colony of nesting mute swans.

It is the only managed colony of its type in the world.

Situated near the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, on a 2-acre site around the Fleet lagoon protected from the weather of Lyme Bay by Chesil Beach. The colony can number over 600 swans with around 150 pairs. Written records of the swannery’s existence go back to 1393 but it probably existed well before that.