Williamson Park, Lancaster

The park now covers an area of 53.6 acres (217,000 m2), having been extended in 1999 onto adjoining land, Fenham Carr, following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

When James Williamson senior died in 1879, his son Lord Ashton took the work forward, handing the site over to Lancaster Corporation in 1881.

[2] Features of the park include the Ashton Memorial, fountains, a butterfly house, a café, a children's play area, the Lancaster sundial on the site of what was once a bandstand, an artificial waterfall, some sculptures and a small folly known as the Temple.

[6] Highest Point featured performances from Ocean Colour Scene, Rae Morris, Embrace, The Two Bears and the Hacienda Classical, and the festival was held again in May 2019.

[7] Since then further iterations of Highest Point have run in the park, in September 2021[8] and again in May 2022 when it was headlined by Richard Ashcroft, Clean Bandit and Kaiser Chiefs.