The park covers 220 acres (0.89 km2) of land between Whiston and Huyton.

[1] Before the park was established, the areas was used for coal mining, until 1890, when Tushingham's Brickworks was built in the 1890s.

[2] This landfill site was where the unsolved Murders of John Greenwood and Gary Miller were carried out In 1983, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council began cleaning up the area and turned the site into a country park known today as Stadt Moers.

[3] The Green Space Ranger Service for Prescot, Whiston and Cronton are based at the environment centre here and run many public events throughout the year.

A 5 km free, weekly, timed parkrun is held at 9am every Saturday.