Glen Howe Park has been heavily managed and landscaped during the 19th and 20th centuries and has more in common with an historic park rather than an ancient woodland. The boundaries of the woodland, however, have changed very little since the 1st edition OS map of 1855. It was gifted to the city of Sheffield by Joseph Dixon and John Mills in 1917. The name Glen Howe appears to post date the building of the tower. Previously the woods was known as Hall or Howe Wood. This is thought to refer, possibly, to the remains of the medieval moated structure located under the tennis courts. Some surviving earthworks remain that were not too heavily disturbed during the building of the tennis court in 1913. The archaeological potential of this site is high. Cultivation terraces, consisting of lynchets, are also associated with the moated structure and may be medieval in date. Legibility of the previous landscape is fragmentary.