Philips Park

Park Hall Philips Park  was formerly know as The Park. It was home to Philips family who had made their money in the textile trade. Robert Philips had purchased the Park and built the Hall where they lived between 1799 and 1948. The Hall was situated on the present grassy field, and it's stables remain today as a Night Club. The Park had notable gardens, a small token of which remains in the Orangery and the ruins of the Hot House in the Woods to the South. Philips Park 1848 Also to the South are the restored foundations of the Southern Lodge. While to the North the original (thatched) Park Lodge has been demolished to make way for the M60 motorway, and a later North Lodge was built from the remains of Outwood Lodge Home to Robert Philips Son, Mark.

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