Hesketh Park, Southport, Merseyside, England

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

HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT

A public park was created by the Southport Commissioners through the Second Southport Improvement Act of 1865 on 23 hectares of land donated by the Rev Charles Hesketh. Edward Kemp (1817-91) laid out the park, possibly to the design of Joseph Paxton (1803-65) for whom Kemp had worked at Birkenhead Park (see description of this site elsewhere in the Register) in Liverpool (Chadwick 1966). The cost of the layout was £12,000 and the park was opened in 1868. Various structures have been added and some alterations made through the later 19th and 20th centuries.