Designed and laid out by Sheffield City Council who acquired the land in 1909 for £10,325, the remainder given as a gift by Earl Fitzwilliam and the Marquis of Zetland (Sewell 1996, 79). The park was considered in by Sewell in her appraisal of the heritage value of Sheffield's parks gardens and open spaces as being of lower historic value. The park comprises mostly grassed areas with some informal flower gardens. Much is set aside for leisure use as tennis courts, cricket pitch and bowling greens. There is a small model boating lake originally shown by the OS in 1891 and marked as a "Skating Pond" until the conversion of the area into a municipal park. This feature overlies the site of the head of the dam associated with the former Skargell Wheel. The park includes a modern children's play park and skate park built since 2000 on the site of a swimming pool and lido in existence between 1929 and 1991. Adjacent to this is a disused paddling pool fed by weirs on the river Sheaf. The park includes weirs built to feed the historic water powered sites of Ecclesall Corn Mill and Skargell/ Barten Weir (See HSY2165 and SMR PRN1729). Fragmentary legibility of relict industrial features along the river course.