Yorkshire’s WallFest launched to protect crumbling boundary wall of ‘world’s first nature reserve’

O ver four years in the 1820s, Charles Waterton built a 9ft-high, 3-mile-long wall around the parkland and lake of Walton Hall. The fox- and poacher-proof boundary enclosed what could be the world’s first nature reserve, completed in 200 years ago. Now the overlooked achievements of the innovative...

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