Editing Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire (section)

==Park and gardens==
[[File:Bretton Hall and lower lake.JPG|thumb|Bretton Hall, lower lake and parkland]]
The pleasure grounds and parkland around the hall were the work of landscape gardeners Richard Woods in the 18th century and [[Robert Marnock]], the estate's head gardener, in the 1820s and 1830s.<ref name="Risk">{{citation| url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/heritage-at-risk/case-studies-har/933519| title=Bretton Park| publisher=[[English Heritage]]| accessdate=9 June 2012| archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120807153957/http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/heritage-at-risk/case-studies-har/933519| archive-date=7 August 2012| url-status=dead}}</ref>  The hall overlooks the [[River Dearne]], which flows in an easterly direction through the parkland. The river is dammed to form two lakes. Oxley Bank, a linear [[earthworks (engineering)|earthwork]], forms the park's eastern boundary.<ref name="P&G"/>

Within and around the Grade II listed parkland and pleasure grounds are several historic structures. Four lodges stand at the estate's main entrances. North Lodge and the grade II listed Haigh Lodge were probably designed by Jeffrey Wyattville at the same time as his 1811–14 extensions at the hall. Archway Lodge, a grade II* listed building by William Atkinson in 1805 takes the form of a giant archway with fluted columns. The extensively altered Hoyland Lodge is on Litherop Lane to the south.<ref name="Garden">{{National Heritage List for England|num=1001217|desc=Bretton Hall|accessdate=13 June 2012|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> The redundant Grade II* listed [[St Bartholomew's Chapel, West Bretton]] built by William Wentworth in 1744<ref name="NHLE">{{National Heritage List for England|num=1135462|desc=Church in Bretton Park|accessdate=24 August 2015|mode=cs2}}</ref> has been restored as gallery space.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ysp.co.uk/chapel/facts|title=Chapel facts |archiveurl=  https://web.archive.org/web/20130629051736/http://www.ysp.co.uk/chapel/facts|archivedate=29 June 2013 |accessdate=30 August 2013 }}</ref>

The parkland is the home of the 224 acre (90 ha) [[Yorkshire Sculpture Park]] and the 100 acre (40 ha) '''Bretton Country Park''' which has been  a designated [[local nature reserve]] since 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=bretton&ID=64|title=Bretton Country Park|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416175345/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=bretton&ID=64|archivedate=16 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271008803%27|title=Map of Bretton Country Park|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England}}</ref> The development of accommodation and car parks for the college and multiple use as a country and sculpture park and general neglect in the second half of the 20th century led to the historic landscape's fragmentation and it was designated "at risk" by [[English Heritage]] in 2009. Yorkshire Sculpture Park is now responsible for most of the park and, in partnership with [[Natural England]], who provided funding, and English Heritage, has a conservation management plan for the park. Trees and scrub have been cleared to provide access to a lakeside perimeter walk.<ref name="Risk"/>