Burwood Park consists of approximately 400 detached houses dating from the early 20th century to the present day. Its roads are a geometric design within an approximate semicircle.

From 1066 Burwood was one of the four Norman manors in the parish. This was conveyed by Corpus Christi College, Oxford to John Carleton from whom King Henry VIII purchased it in 1540. He ordered Burwood as with the Ashley and Oatlands manors to be converted to a deer park or woodland for him to enjoy and later awarded it to a tenant-in-chief.

Between 1617 and 1720, Burwood Park passed through a succession of purchasers and their heirs.

In 1739 the first of the Frederick baronets acquired it — Burwood Park mansion in land west of the former Burwood House (manor house) was built by Sir John Frederick (1708–1783), a wealthy city merchant and Lord Mayor of London. He planted many of the trees and shrubs, which are a feature of the woodlands here.

Henry Askew of Westmorland purchased it from the family. After the deaths of the Askew daughters, an estate company first purchased and then sold the park to Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh in 1927. Rupert Guinness his son divided most of the park, barring tree-lined roads and verges, into large-garden plots with a minimum value of any home to be built in each, in 1934, laying out the private roads. He was the first Chairman of the Burhill Estates Company formed for this purpose and named roads after Guinness family estates in Suffolk.

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