Waterton Park in West Yorkshire was the ‘prototype for the modern nature reserve’, and has been rewarded by Historic England with protection. Annie Elwes tells the story of the man behind it.
The world’s first nature reserve, Waterton Park in West Yorkshire, has been granted protection by Historic England with a Grade II listing. Upon inheriting the Walton Hall estate in 1805, naturalist and conservationist Charles Waterton (1782 – 1865) went against the attitudes…
