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The site of the late 18th century Dutch Farm at Carnaby is of particular historic interest retaining as it does significant remains, in its plan and water features, of a rare, albeit modest, example of a English version of Marie Antoinette’s Hameau de la Reine built in 1783 at Versailles.

Gardens, pleasure grounds and park with a mixture of geometric and less formal features developed c 1698-1738 by Charles Howard, third Earl of Carlisle and Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

Parkland with irregular lake laid out by William Emes c. 1787, a typical example of the work of a landscape gardener who executed commissions for many prominent landowners in England and Wales.

A public park opened in 1927.

A public cemetery opened in 1881 by the Sheffield Township Burial Board, designed by the Sheffield architectural practice of Messrs M E Hadfield and Son.

Cleveland Lodge park and garden is a well preserved example of a mid to late Victorian country villa and its associated designed landscape. Thomas Richardson, its creator, was an archetypal self-made man, whose wealth derived from investments in the leading technologies of the day such as the Stockton to Darlington railway.

A municipal park at the centre of Rotherham, opened in 1891 by the Prince of Wales. The park overlies the landscape of Clifton House which was laid out in the late C18.

Gardens of the C18 and C20 possibly with C17 origins, park with medieval origins and park landscaping which probably dates from the C18.

The designed landscape around Copgrove Hall was developed in two major phases. The first was in the 1760s when the lake and southern parkland was put in to a design by Thomas White to complement the old hall. The second was in the third quarter of the 19th century with the development of the parkland north and east, after the present Copgrove Hall was constructed in the 1820s.