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

found 2026 › May › 13 (Wed) @ 14:57 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

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 par…