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A municipal park laid out in the 1870s over a former sandstone quarry, associated with Boston Castle, a shooting lodge built in 1775.

Botanical gardens laid out 1834-6 by Robert Marnock with contemporary conservatories by B B Taylor.

A public park opened in 1880 with additional features added in the early C20.

The designed landscape at Boynton retains elements of three main periods of activity from the early 18th to early 19th century. The plantations cover much the same area as they did in the mid 19th century. The surviving garden (banqueting) house of c. 1600, the early 18th-century bridge, and the mid-late 18th century dairy, Fond Bridge and Carnaby Temple are particularly significant and rare in the East Riding.

Pleasure grounds and park laid out during the period c 1700-13, with additions by John Wood the Elder of c 1725-8 for Robert Benson, first Lord Bingley.

The parkland at Brantinghamthorpe is a good example of a modest planned landscape of the early 19th century, but of particular historical significance are the remnants of the Victorian formal gardens laid out for visits of the Prince of Wales.

Pleasure grounds of late C18 and early C19 date, parkland of the C18 with earlier origins.

Gardens and a landscape park created as the setting for a new country house, laid out in the mid C19 and incorporating earlier work.

Formal gardens by William Andrews Nesfield of 1855-7 which are considered to be one of the best surviving examples of his work.

Burn Hall has a modest park and garden of 100 acres, which was developed in the late 19th century alongside the main house. Since its conversion from a private home in the 1960s, some of the historic garden has now been lost but a significant amount of the original landscaping remains.