The landscape designer, Thomas White (c. 1736-1811), had a long career during which he worked at over 90 sites across northern England and Scotland, providing improvement plans and often carrying out their implementation.

Denton Park hall, dating from the 1770s, sits in a designed landscape that was first developed in the 16th century with extensive deer parks stretching from the river to the high moorland.

Crathorne Hall was built between 1903 and 1906, but sits in a much older designed landscape using the dramatic river Leven valley as its central feature.