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The current designed landscape at Hackness was laid out within the space of only a generation at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. It is an almost complete example of a landscape design executed on a modest scale after the fashion of the day and drawing on the beauty of the surrounding landscape. Most features survive, as well as some of the historic planting, and there is continuity of use in many parts of the landscape. Hackness is the only place within the North York Moors National Park where a medieval village was removed to make way for a landscape park.

Gardens and pleasure grounds of the C18 with elements designed by Lancelot Brown, Richard Woods and Thomas White and a terraced garden of 1844-51.

The landscape that is seen today was largely developed over the period 1768-1786 by Walter Ramsden Beaumont Hawksworth [later Fawkes] (1746-1792) who consulted two landscape designers. The first was probably Antony Sparrow and the second Thomas White.

Hazelwood was the seat of the Vavasour family for over 800 years, from the time of Domesday until the estate was put up for sale in 1907. In addition to Hazelwood, the Vavasours owned manors and land across Yorkshire and in Staffordshire.

The Brooksbank family of Elland and Hackney bought the manor of Healaugh in 1714. Given the decline of the Elizabethan manor house (Healaugh Manor) on the former monastic site of Healaugh Park Priory and its associated deer park, they built a new house, Healaugh Hall. It was later also known as Healaugh Manor.

The designed landscape at Healaugh Park and Manor has three distinct phases of development spanning the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. The medieval deer park, Healaugh Park, was established prior to 1217 and it evolved and changed through to the post medieval period and was still in use until at least 1707.

A formal garden designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens during the years 1906-11 as an integral part of the design of the house.

Garden layout, mainly dating from the early C20, surrounding an C18 country house, set in parkland primarily of mid C19 and early C20 date.

The wealthy Fountayne family developed the site for over two hundred years from the late 17th century, reflecting the changes in style of gardens and parks. High Melton was a valued sporting estate used extensively by local hunts and recognised as having one of the finest partridge shoots in Yorkshire. This could have influenced the park’s development having the both sporting and aesthetic purposes.

The grounds of an echelon-style psychiatric hospital, designed in 1884 by the West Riding county surveyor and opened in 1888.