The Manchester Zoological Gardens opened in 1838, on a 15-acre (6 ha) site between Broom Lane and Northumberland Street in Broughton, now in Salford, England.

Attractions included a Grand Menagerie, a lake, a maze, an archery ground, and a series of landscaped walks.

The gardens were laid out by a company of local business men, on land rented from the Rev.

John Clowes of Broughton Hall, who had become interested in botany and horticulture in later life.

[1][2] The gardens competed with John Jennison's Belle Vue Zoological Gardens opened three years earlier, but the venture was commercially unsuccessful and closed in 1842.