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Kippax Park was an important designed landscape from at least the early 14th century. Its large enclosed park was leased by Thomas Bland in 1595 and he built a mansion on the site of the former hunting lodge. This would become the focus of the designed landscape that changed little over the next 300 years. The designer, Adam Mickle II, was asked to prepare an improvement plan in 1787 but there is little evidence that any of his ideas were carried out. In 1928, the hall was abandoned and finally demolished in 1955 to make way for open cast mining across its site and much of the former parkland. This has now returned to open fields and with some perimeter woodland, parts of the park wall and the walls of the former kitchen garden surviving.

The designed landscape of Kirby Hall was largely shaped by the decision of Stephen Thompson to build himself a new hall in 1746. Stephen’s brother and nephew continued to develop the grounds from 1764, employing the designers, Adam Mickle II and possibly Thomas White. Later generations of the Thompson modified the landscape and by 1907, the parkland had reached its greatest extent. While most of the 18th century hall was demolished in 1920, the historic designed landscape is largely extant.

The Kirkby Hall estate lies on a large, open plateau overlooking the River Swale to the east. It comprised an 18th-century designed landscape with a long, narrow woodland terrace and garden buildings, landscape park, lake, stream and pleasure grounds, designed by its owner, William Aislabie of Studley Park.

Landscaped park, pleasure grounds and gardens for Kirklees Hall, the principal phase of development being the late C18, probably to a design by Richard Woods who had provided a plan in 1760.

Kirklevington Hall was built by Thomas Richardson in 1884, following his purchase of the northern half of the manor of Kirklevington. He laid out the grounds around it and also developed Kirklevington Grange to the northeast to form a combined designed landscape, much of which remains today.

A cemetery designed by the Leeds architect, George Corson, assisted by the landscape gardener, William Gay of Bradford, opened in 1875.

Walled gardens and terraces probably of late C17 and C18 date, elements of a garden designed by Charles Bridgeman of 1716 and a park with C17 origins.

Linden Grange [Grove] is a late 19th/early 20th century designed landscape of around 97 acres (39 hectares) that retains much of its original planting, although the parkland itself is much reduced through building and reversion to agricultural use.

A cemetery opened in 1841 by the Halifax General Cemetery Company.