Mayfield Park

Image of Mayfield Park The Community Award winning Mayfield Park provides 17 hectares of varied landscape and historical features in the south east of Southampton. The park includes formal gardens, sports grounds and large recreation areas, woodland walks, a play area and grade II listed buildings.

The park, which opened in 1938, was formerly the grounds of Mayfield House built for Robert Wright in 1854 and demolished in 1956. Sited near the playing fields is the Obelisk, commemorating Charles Fox the radical politician which serves as a local landmark. Shoreburs Greenway follows the early nineteenth century carriageway which linked Weston Grove House to Portsmouth Road.

See the management plan below for more details of the park and what is happening.

Mayfield Park, Wrights Hill, Weston, Southampton, SO19 9HL.

Features in Mayfield Park

1. Bowling Green (site of Mayfield House)

Mayfield House occupied the current site of the bowling green. It was built in 1854 by Robert Wright after whom Wright’s Hill is named. Between 1889 and 1937 it was owned by Lord Radstock. In 1937 it passed into the hands of Southampton Council who opened up the grounds as a public park. The house itself was demolished in 1956. The stable block on Wright’s Hill is still standing.

2. Site of Oldmill House

A water powered wood working mill was established in 1762 by Walter Taylor. Re-built as a house in the nineteenth century it was demolished in the 1950’s after having been abandoned in 1941 as a result of bomb damage.

3. Fox’s monument

The obelisk was built as a memorial to Whig politician Charles James Fox (1749-1806). It was erected by his friend William Chamberlayne of Weston Grove Estate in 1810 on the eastern part of the estate. In 1854 this part of the estate was sold to Robert Wright who built a mansion here called ‘Mayfield’.

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Bowling in Mayfield Park

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Name of file	Size	Download time
Mayfield Park Updated Management Plan 2013	2595 KB	10secs @ 2Mbps
Mayfield Park Update to Management Plan 2012	29 KB	0secs @ 2Mbps
Mayfield Park Management Plan 2010	6444 KB	26secs @ 2Mbps