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Dating from the 17th century, the hall was extensively rebuilt in the 1890s by the architect, Walter Brierley of York, who added the formal terraces to the south. The lake to the south was expanded and the pleasure grounds to the north were added before 1903.

Developed from the mid 18th century around Welton House by two families whose wealth derived from mercantile trading from nearby Hull. Its second owner, Thomas Williamson, engaged the services of Thomas White in 1769 to develop the grounds he inherited from his uncle the previous year.

Formal gardens which were laid out in the period c 1713-30 with mid C18 additions surrounded by parkland of early and mid C18 date.

Gardens of the C18 and C19 and a park remodelled by Humphry Repton in the early 1790s, with a set of notable early to mid C18 monuments and follies within and around the edge of the park.

A public park laid out in the mid 1890s and opened in 1896.

A municipal park, including the buildings of the Weston Park Museum and Mappin Art Gallery, modified by Robert Marnock from a mid C19 garden, and opened to the public in 1875.

Gardens and pleasure grounds partly laid out in c 1897 with additional formal landscaping and features dating from 1912 to 1938.

Early C20 ornamental quarry garden containing rare trees and plant species, including a limestone rock garden of c 1912 designed by the horticulturist and plant collector Clarence Elliott.

Womersley Park was first developed by Tobiah Harvey from about 1703 and has remained in the ownership of his descendants until a break-up of the estate through a sale in 1930. The house and gardens remained in the family ownership until 2004. Womersley estate is a site of 144.5 hectares (357 acres) bounded mostly by a shelter belt plantation and partly by magnesian limestone walls.

Woodhall has been the site of a manor house then Hall for at least 500 years, with its strategic location next to the River Derwent being its key attraction. One of the earliest surviving parts of the designed landscape is the terrace built along the riverbank, possibly created in the latter part of the 18th century.