Oulton Hall, Leeds, England

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

Park and pleasure grounds laid out in part to designs by Humphry Repton of 1809-10 with mid-19th-century additions by W A Nesfield.
 

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Oulton Hall lies immediately south and west of the village of Oulton. On the north side of the site Springhead Park separates the park from built-up areas, and there is open agricultural land to the south between the park and the M62 motorway. The roughly 110-hectare site is on land which slopes gently down to the north and east. The north boundary is formed by Clifton Lane and Rothwell Lane, the A642 bounds the east side of the site, and Royds Lane part of the south-west side. Remaining boundaries are formed by fences separating the park from agricultural land, and on the south side, from a school.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

D Stroud, Humphry Repton (1962), pp 148-9, 171

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire The West Riding (1967), p 387

Country Life, 181 (17 September 1987), pp 146-9

G Sheeran, Landscape Gardens in West Yorkshire 1680-1880 (1990), pp 115-17

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1848-51; 1931 edition

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1893

Archival items

Oulton Hall Red Book, 1809-10 (DB 179), (West Yorkshire Archive Service) [Some Red Book illustrations are reproduced in Country Life 1987; maps abstracted from Repton are in Sheeran 1990.]

Typescript notes (EH file)
 

Description written: February 1998

Amended: March 1999

Edited: November 1999