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A landscaped park, pleasure grounds and formal garden of the later C18 laid out around a contemporary house by John Carr of York.

The Monk Fryston estate goes back to at least the early 14th century when it belonged to Selby Abbey and served as a quarrying and farming site. The current park and garden was developed in the second half of the 19th century by the Hemsworth family.

A cholera burial ground of 1832, the Cholera Monument of 1834-5, and early to mid C19 pleasure grounds, laid out on land owned by the twelfth Duke of Norfolk.

A public cemetery established in 1841 by the Rotherham General Cemetery Company.

Early C19 formal garden for a country house of 1828-33 by Anthony Salvin built for Henry Preston, surrounded by a park developed in the early 18th century by Marmaduke Lawson, a noted plantsman.

Park laid out by the first Earl of Mulgrave in the late C18 and early C19 incorporating proposals made by Thomas White in 1784-5 and Humphry Repton in 1792-3.

Gardens laid out by Sir John Murray Naesmyth for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in 1844 as private pleasure grounds for Society members.

Although Myton Hall dates from the late 17th century, the designed landscape was largely created in the 19th century by members of the Stapylton family after it became their principal residence. Set next to the River Swale and north of the village, it has expanded over time principally to the north and east.

The former parkland of Neswick Hall with its boundary plantations provides a good example of the typical layout of a modest mid-18th century designed landscape. Of particular interest is the restored walled kitchen garden.

Garden, pleasure grounds and park with C17 or earlier origins, laid out c 1730-40 for the fourth Viscount Fauconberg and modified probably in the later C18 and the C19.