Yorkshire's WallFest Launched to Protect Historic Nature Reserve Wall

A new initiative called WallFest has been launched in Yorkshire to protect the crumbling 9ft-high, 3-mile-long boundary wall of Walton Hall, considered the world's first nature reserve, built by Charles Waterton in the 1820s.

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

Pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton enclosed his parkland and lake near Wakefield in the 1820s Over 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 Yorkshire 200 years ago. Waterton, an eccentric, controversial and pioneering environmentalist, built nest boxes, special banks for sand martins and innovative ...

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