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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

RARE PHOTOS: Yorkshire estate known as world s first nature reserve gets grade ii listing | Vintage Vibes

Walton Hall and Waterton Park.
Waterton Park is the first known landscape to be designed to attract and protect native wildlife. Photograph: Alun Bull/Historic England

A Yorkshire parkland regarded as the world’s first nature reserve – which was created by an eccentric pioneering 19th-century environmentalist – has been given a Grade II listing.

Historic England said Waterton Park, near Wakefield, was the earliest known example of a landscape designed specifically to attract and protect native wildlife.

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