Deer Park associated with Cannon Hall which was designed and implemented in 1761 by Richard Woods. The deer park must have been enclosed by 1762 as John Spencer, a local Ironmaster, records in his diary fetching deer from Gunthwaite Park (English Heritage 2001). Prior to the development of the deer park this was probably an area of fields. These may have been enclosed from medieval open fields associated with Cawthorne. The land north of Cannon Hall is marked as 'Shutts' which indicates it was an area of open fields (Field 1972, 203). There is no legibility of the pre deer park landscape. There has been substantial tree loss in the park because of open cast coal mining which took place after the second world war (Moxon 2000, 158). The exact areas mined are uncertain.