Public Park probably built at the same time as the adjacent housing estate. This was built on an area of surveyed enclosure of a former open town field. The place name Chapel Fields survives onto 1907 mapping. This open field was probably enclosed as part of the 1767 Wombwell enclosure award (date from English 1985). There was a small plantation within this area, some of the trees may have been incorporated into the park. There is fragmentary legibility of the surveyed enclosure landscape.