A few new walkways were laid out, integrating the new section with the old. Many of the
walkways in the new section that had been established by the previous owner were retained.
There was a drop in level between the existing park and the newly acquired section. The
difference was easily accommodated by extending the terraced structure that had been
established thirty years earlier.

It was popular at the time for walkways to be planted at one or both sides by an avenue of
trees. It would have been convenient to make use of existing rows of trees wherever they
existed and to construct paths alongside these. It is evident that this did occur, since there are
at least two such avenues which follow precisely the lines of the original field boundariesxxxix.
One of these follows the boundary between the original and the new sites. These boundaries
would have been marked by hawthorn hedging interspersed with trees, probably ash and
elmxl. Presumably, during the re-landscaping of 1880-2, the hedging was removed and the
remaining trees used as a basis for the new layout. Over the years, many of the trees will
have been replaced, but the line that they follow has been retained. Hence, certain sections of
these field boundaries, which may be several centuries old, can still be clearly identified.

Much of the layout of the park as it was in 1882 has survived intact to the present day. One
notable exception is the showfield, which has since been greatly extended, but at that time had
not yet been established. Another major difference is that there now many more tall trees and
therefore fewer uninterrupted views. However, despite all the various constructions and
artefacts that have been added over the decades, each of these have blended fairly well into
the landscape without upsetting the overall balance. Nor have the later extensions had any
significant impact on the older parts, since (with the exception of the showfield) these are
hardly visible from the main section. The heart of the park as we see it today is essentially
only a more mature version of what it was in the 1880’s.