[1] 50–60% of the land consisted of open turfed areas, suitable for sport, with most of the rest being laid out as formal gardens and lakes.

Stanley Park is known for dividing the home grounds of rival Merseyside football clubs Everton and Liverpool.

Part of Stanley Park was to have been incorporated into the area of Liverpool's proposed new stadium, plans for which were first announced in 2000, ironically the same location Everton F.C.

played, but a change of ownership of the club during autumn 2010 resulted in the Stanley Park project being scrapped in October 2012, in favour of expanding Anfield.

As a film location it partly played a backdrop in Sayle's 1980s BBC documentary for the series Comic Roots.