Worden Park, Leyland, England

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

Park and pleasure grounds with elements of an early 19th-century scheme and a formal garden probably of the mid- or later 19th century.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Worden Park lies on the south side of Leyland in an area which is residential, with open agricultural land to the south and south-west. The roughly 60 hectare site is on land which slopes gently up to the north-east from the Shaw Brook. The boundary on the east side is formed by Holt Brow and Worden Lane. Parkgate Drive forms part of the north boundary, with the remainder being fencing dividing the site from a sports ground and private houses on Worden Close. On the west side fences divide the park from the private gardens of houses fronting onto Cumberland Avenue. The south boundary is formed by fencing on the south side of Shaw Brook.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

The Victoria History of the County of Lancashire 6, (1911), pp 12-15

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire (1969), p 167

Maps

Estate map, around 1725 [extract in Leyland History Society 1996]

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1844-6, published 1848; 1929 edition

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1893, published 1894; 1928 edition

Archival items

Leyland Historical Society, typescript report, (February 1996) [copy on EH file]
 

Description written: November 1999

Amended: February 2000