Walton, Wakefield
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Walton is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in the county of West Yorkshire, England, 4 miles south-east of Wakefield. At the time of the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of
Walton Hall, Walton
Walton Hall, West Yorkshire
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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 l
Walton, Wakefield
…population of this ward at the Census was 15,144. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village lies on the Barnsley Canal and is home to Walton Hall, once the residence of Charles Waterton, known as 'Squire' Waterton. He was a naturalist and explorer who, in 1820, transformed the grounds of the…
Walton Hall, Walton
The Boulby sundial in the grounds
Charles Waterton by Charles Willson Peale, 1824, National Gallery, London