This park and municipal Golf Course (see HSY1045) was created some time between 1923 and 1938 from agricultural land adjacent to Woolley Wood. Some thin strands of woodland fossilise earlier field boundaries. This polygon has significant time depth from the multiple tenancy farm described by John Harrison in 1937 (see Scurfield 1985) as Oakes Farm - formerly known, when in single occupancy, as Woolley Grange (a possible property of Ecclesfield Priory). The park includes a surviving timber-framed barn (SMR PRN1373) from Oakes Farm recorded by Harrison's survey and now used as a base by Sheffield's Ranger Service. Significant legibility of historic features surviving from the former agricultural landscape.