High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walton Hall is a stately home in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield. It was built in the Palladian style around 1767 on an island within a 26 acre (105,000 m ) lake, on the site of a former moated medieval hall. 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. Waterton's son, Edmund, sold the estate.The Waterton Collection is now in Wakefield Museum.Walton Hall is now part of the Waterton Park Hotel. In the 1940s and again in the late 1950s and early 1960s the Hall was a maternity home.

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