This park, obtained by Sheffield City Council in 1886 in order to prevent its development as housing fossilises a number of landscape features from the private parkland of Meersbrook House. Meersbrook House was built in 1760 (SCC Conservation Team Listed Building notes) by Benjamin Roebuck, merchant, alongside the main route to Chesterfield. This road was re routed in 1808 around what would become Meersbrook Park (Armitage 1910, 86). The old route is visible on late 18th century maps but the park is shown by Sanderson in 1835. By the 1877 Ordnance survey 25 inch survey this area of the parkland included most of the walks and bands of trees still present today which offer and frame the dramatic panoramas of Sheffield that can be seen from the higher ground of the park. The park was reduced to its present proportions on its purchase by the council having originally extended to Chesterfield Road and the Meers Brook. Features added since the park became municipal include a wooden pavilion, bandstand (demolished) concrete paths and promenades, fountain (disused), bowling greens and further pavilions (in excellent condition), tennis courts, and a small rose garden. Significant legibility of 19th century landscaped parkland. Lychets from former piecemeal enclosures also visible.