Ravenfield Park was established as a formal designed landscape by the early 17th century as evidenced by an engraving by Thomas Badeslade of c1740 which shows impressive formal avenues and smaller geometrical gardens and lawns in the French style. The formal layout of the park is well maintained between the Badeslade drawing and a 1764 Fairbank survey. By 1855 (possibly between 1766 and 1774 [http://www.rotherhamunofficial.co.uk/villages/ravenfield.htm]) the parkland was remodelled in the informal naturalistic style popularised by Brown and Repton in the later 18th century. Exact date of abandonment as formal landscape unknown - main area of Ravenfield park last shown as parkland by Ordnance Survey maps in 1938 - resurveyed as farmland by 1967. This polygon includes the earthwork remains of the former Ravenfield Hall as well as the 18th century estate Church designed by John Carr.