Walton Hall, West Yorkshire

Walton Hall
LocationWest Yorkshire, England
Coordinates53°38′31.2″N 1°27′3.6″W / 53.642000°N 1.451000°W / 53.642000; -1.451000
OS grid referenceSE 36377 16255
Builtc. 1767
Architectural style(s)Palladian architecture
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated11 April 1973
Location of Walton Hall in West Yorkshire

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.

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