Waterton's Wall

I had a really enjoyable trip to the first nature reserve in the world...in Wakefield! Two hundred years ago the environmentalist Charles Waterton created a nature reserve in the grounds of his home at Walton Hall. Waterton was instrumental in protecting wildlife, in particular providing habitats for 123 species of birds. He had a three-mile-long wall erected around the parkland which, 200 years later, volunteers are working hard to preserve.

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