Oakes Park, Sheffield, England

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

Gardens and pleasure grounds with early to mid-18th-century origins, an early 19th-century terrace and parkland probably of early 19th-century date.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Oakes Park is situated south-east of Sheffield immediately east of the village of Norton. The roughly 46 hectare site is on land which slopes gently down to the south and is bordered by suburban areas to the north and west, and by agricultural land beyond the A5102 to the south and east. The A5102, constructed on this line in the 1980s, cuts off an area of former parkland which is now outside the registered area. The boundaries are defined by Norton Lane to the north, School Lane to the west, the A5102 (Bochum Parkway) to the south and Hereward's Road to the east. The boundary is marked by a wall, which is ruinous in places, along the north and west sides, and by fencing along the south and east sides.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Oakes Park, (Sheffield Centre for Ecology and Environmental Management (SCEEM) 1995)

Maps (all reproduced in SCEEM 1995)

R Willson, A Mappe of The Oaks in the Parish of Norton, 1707

William [illegible], A Plan of Norton Oakes in the County of Derby The seat of R. Bagshawe Esq., (no date, 18th century)

F Richardson, Survey of Norton Oaks the seat of Willm Bagshawe in the County of Darby, 1753

OS Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1850; 2nd edition published 1893

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition 1914

Archival items

The Oakes Deeds are held in Sheffield City Archive Department, ref OD.
 

Description written: June 1998

Edited: November 1999