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The original hall was torched as retribution for supporting the Jacobites. In 1760 it was rebuilt in Georgian style, and expanded by the Gillow family who still live here. So the contents are impressive but on a domestic not palatial scale. Extensive gardens, and watch the hawks being fed around 3PM.
Leighton Hall is a historic house 0.5 miles (1 km) to the west of Yealand Conyers in Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
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This is a large area of fresh-water lagoons and wetland, now in the care of RSPB, who also manage the nearby salt marshes. Highlights are avocets (spring & summer), bearded tits (year-round, flocking in autumn), bitterns (most visible in winter), marsh harriers (year-round) and water-rail (in dry or icy conditions). The woodlands have nuthatches, bullfinches, tawny owls, long-tailed tits, tree-creepers and woodpeckers. Look out also for otters and red deer - plus a few cattle, it's their job to graze and trample down certain areas for the benefit of the birds.