To indicate the site of the cottage where Captain James Cook was born he had erected a pink granite vase still present today.

In January 1959, the Borough engineer, A Kenyon, stated in a report, "The Hall....was of no wide historic or architectural value" and that renovations would cost in the region of £25,000.

The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum (opened October 1978) is also within the park, which was built over the eastern part of Marton.

A pets' corner houses several types of domesticated animals: fallow deer, highland cattle, llamas, goats, peacocks, pheasants, rabbits and guinea pigs.

Play areas for children include a climbing frame named after HMS Endeavour, Captain James Cook's ship.

The Captain Cook Birthplace museum is situated in the middle of the park and is open to visitors from April to November.

[12][13] The park also hosts larger events in the summer such as, fairgrounds and the annual agricultural showpiece, the Cleveland Show.

It reopened to students in September 2017, and is Askham Bryan College's principal land-based education centre in the Tees Valley region.