Mowbray Park, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England

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

A municipal park laid out by the Borough in the 1850s, opened in 1857 and extended in the 1860s.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Mowbray Park occupies a seven-hectare, approximately rectangular site in a densely residential area close to Sunderland town centre. It is divided by the railway cutting it into two halves: Mowbray Extension Park to the north, and Mowbray Park to the south. The Extension Park extends south from the museum and library building and the Mowbray Park Hotel on Borough Road (both outside the area here registered); Mowbray Park occupies the area south from the railway to Park Road. The west and east boundaries of the whole park are formed by Burdon Road and Toward Road respectively.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

W Mitchell, History of Sunderland (1919)

T Corfe, History of Sunderland (1973)

T Corfe, Wearmouth Heritage (1975)

A Pickersgill, Discovering Sunderland (1977)

The Opening of the New Park, Sunderland, Tuesday July 10, 1866, (Sunderland Borough Central Library, Local Pamphlets 8 1978)

H Conway, People's Parks (1991), pp 94, 96, 140, 156, 158, 177, 230

A Guide to the Historic Parks and Gardens of Tyne and Wear, (Tyne and Wear Specialist Conservation Team 1995), pp 35-6

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1897  

Description written: November 1999

Edited: July 2000