[5] The estate which now forms the park was purchased by Samuel Galton, Jr., then living at nearby Great Barr Hall, in the 1790s.

He commissioned Humphry Repton to landscape the fields[2] and ordered the building of a new house to designs by the architect, Robert Lugar, in gothic style.

[2] His designs, in the form of a Red Book typical of his work, and submitted in March 1795, are now held by Sandwell Archives.

This houses the trust's offices, a café, a public meeting room, toilets, and a golf shop.

[11] The Trust's patrons are the actors Julie Walters and Colin Buchanan, the DJ and Presenter Stuart Maconie and local historian Carl Chinn.