Glen Howe Park Historic Park & Garden
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Description
This Historic Park and Garden was identified and considered Locally Listed under the Sheffield UDP and UDP Policy BE21, which can be seen here: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-07/03-udp-built-environment.pdf . The supporting document, which contains the schedule of identified Historic Parks & Gardens, can be seen here: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/planning-and-development/sheffield-plan/Historic%20Parks%20%26%20Gardens.pdf. As a result, the park and all its associated features has been included in the current Local Heritage List for South Yorkshire.
Glen Howe Park is situated six miles north west of the City Centre. The park has formed around a wooded glen always noted for its beauty. Mostly densely wooded and naturalistic in character, the park is very popular with the local community, particularly in the spring, but is one of the more remote parks from the City Centre.
There had always existed an extensive wooded area, Howe Wood, around the Tinker Brook Valley as shown on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map of the area. By the early 1900's, Ordnance Survey maps show the wood, now called Glen Howe, with extensive footpath systems, stepping stones over the stream and Glen Howe Tower built in 1881, suggesting that the site had been used for recreation prior to its creation as a public park. The site came up for sale in July 1917 and contemporary newspaper accounts suggest a possible danger of losing a 'Yorkshire Beauty Spot'. Contemporary accounts however suggested that other people had also made donations to secure the purchase and support the development of the park.
The land forming Glen Howe Park was donated in 1917 by Joseph Dixon and John Mills "for the purposes of exercise and recreation in pursuance of the Open Spaces Act 1877 and 1890 in perpetuity". Between 1925 and 1926, an old stone packhorse bridge (1) was transferred from near the Ewden Valley when the reservoir was being built, and re-erected in Glen Howe. In 1975 the Sheffield Recreation Committee acquired an adjoining area of land at Damasel Lane for use as a car park for visitors to the park.
At the entrance to the park are the original stone gate piers (2) with a short driveway leading up to Glen Howe Tower (1881), (3) and the artist in residence's house. There are two memorial seats, one to Mr Cecil Brearly who was Keeper of Glen Howe from 1939 to 197 4, and one to Jean lliffe nee Oliver.
Sheffield Directorate of Planning and Economic Development, 1997, Sheffield's Historic Parks and Gardens (Unpublished document).
Statement of Significance
None recorded
Date Listed
n/a
Last Updated
07 Sep 2022
Find Out More
Find out more about this Asset in South Yorkshire Local Heritage List:
https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/south-yorkshire/asset/1306
https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/south-yorkshire/asset/1306