Hesketh Park, Southport, Merseyside, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A public park opened in 1868 designed by Edward Kemp.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Hesketh Park is situated about 1.2 kilometres north-east of the centre of Southport, in an area of generally residential character some 900 metres south-east of the seafront. The 12 hectare site is roughly oval in shape and is bounded by Albert Road to the north-west, Park Crescent to the north, east and south, and Park Road to the south-west. There is a stone plinth along the boundary which was once surmounted by cast-iron railings. The locality was formerly one of coastal sandhills to the north and fields to the south and east. The sandhills have been levelled apart from the area within the park itself.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Builder XXVI, (9 May 1868), p 344

G F Chadwick, The Park and the Town (1966), pp 104-5

Garden History Society Newsletter 16, (1972), pp 7-9

H Conway, People's Parks (1991)

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: Lancashire sheet LXXV NW, 1st edition surveyed 1849; Lancashire sheet LXXV NW, published 1929

OS 25" to 1 mile: published 1893; published 1911; published 1927

OS 5' to 1 mile: surveyed 1889

Archival items

Anonymous handwritten notes and a typewritten list of items in Southport Library with brief historical details, no date (Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Planning and Environment Department)
 

Description written: March 1997

Amended: June 1998

Edited: March 1999