This park is in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. It was the first municipal park in the city and covers an area of 5 hectares. It is situated next to the University of Sheffield Library, Geography ad Firth Court buildings and across the road from Sheffield Children's Hospital. It is one of the three Crookesmoor parks.
Robert Marnock was commissioned to design the park in 1873. New terra cotta pillared entrances were established at Winter Street and Western Bank using designs by Godfrey Sykes. The original lake was extended and redesigned and the Ebenezer Elliott memorial statue was moved to the park from its original place in Market Place. The bandstand was added around 1900.
In 1905, the park was visited by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra during a visit to Sheffield in which they also opened the nearby University of Sheffield. A war memorial to the York and Lancaster Regiment was erected in the park in 1923 to commemorate the 8,814 of the regiment who died in the First World War.
In 1882, the Weston Park Weather Station was erected privately by the curator of the adjacent museum; it is the official climatological station for Sheffield and since 1937 it has been run by the museum's staff. It is one of the oldest weather stations in the country and all records are freely available via computer database or printed media.
Entrance to the museum is free should you wish to find out all about the history of Sheffield.