Walton Hall | |
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Location | West Yorkshire, England |
Coordinates | 53°38′31.2″N 1°27′3.6″W / 53.642000°N 1.451000°W |
OS grid reference | SE 36377 16255 |
Built | c. 1767 |
Architectural style(s) | Palladian architecture |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Designated | 11 April 1973 |
Walton Hall is a country house in Walton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It was built on the site of a former moated medieval hall in the Palladian style in 1767 on an island in a 26-acre (11 ha) lake. It was the ancestral home of the naturalist and traveller Charles Waterton, who made Walton Hall into the world's first wildfowl and nature reserve.[1]