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

Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing

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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