It has special significance as it was the first commission of Humphry Repton as a landscape gardener.
You can wander through the open wild flower meadow or you can explore the woodland with its many interesting trees and wood sculptures.
There are footpaths through the woods and across the park; most of which are accessible by wheelchairs and push-chairs.
The development of the area now known as Catton Park was carried out over a period of a hundred years from the 1770s onwards and was the work of successive owners of the Catton Hall estate of which it formed a part.
Although Catton Hall is no longer in the same ownership as Catton Park, the history of the two is inextricably linked as that of a mansion in a parkland setting.
The Catton Hall estate was not unusual in being formed as a place of occasional residence for the business elite of the city, and Norwich had, by the late 18th century, a ring of such residences.
