It stretches from Ecclesall Road and joins on to Limb Brook Valley heading towards the Peak District, with an entrance to Whinfell Quarry Garden.
[1] Whirlow Brook Hall was built in 1906 by Percy Fawcett, a director of Thomas Firth & Sons,[2] with an elevated terrace giving fine views over Ecclesall Woods to Abbeydale.
[3] In 1920 the house was sold to his sister, Lily Marguerite 'Madge', who was married to Sir Walter Benton Jones, the son of a baronet and chairman/managing director of the United Steel Companies.
[6] Sir Walter moved to the family seat at Irnham Hall, Lincolnshire.
In 1946 the house along with 39 acres of grounds was sold to a consortium, which included the Town Trustees, the J.G.