Gallery Bottom Wood is recorded as an ancient woodland with some areas consisting of semi-natural woodland and a small area of replanted ancient woodland. It probably formed a compartment at the western end of Kimberworth deer park. The park was in existence by 1226 and was disimparked shortly after the end of the civil war. At the southern end of the woods are the remains of three silted up ponds with stone built sluices. Beyond them are the remains of a stone wall. The ponds may be the remains of the medieval deer parks fish ponds or of a slightly later 16th/ 17th century date. The wall may be part of the park pale (boundary wall) or contemporary with the later date of the fish ponds. Legibility is partial due to this. After disimparkment, the woods became part of the Landscaped grounds of Thundercliffe Grange in 1777. The council acquired the woodlands in 1929.