Belle Vale Park was designated as a Public Open Space after World War 2, to serve the new residential district that was being created at that time (including one of the country's largest prefab housing estates). It had originally been part of the grounds of Belle Vale Hall. The hall itself stood in Wambo Lane - on the site of the row of postwar houses adjacent to the Belle Vale Road shopping parade - but its grounds extended towards present-day Childwall Valley Road (before that road existed).

The Little Woolton Tithe Map of 1848 indicates the owner of Belle Vale Hall as James Mulleneux, and the 1851 Census tells us that he was a merchant, born in Liverpool in about 1795. He lived at Belle Vale Hall with his wife, 6 children, a grandson and 6 servants. Liverpool trade directories indicate that he was a 'liquor merchant' (probably an importer of wines and spirits), his firm having premises alongside the Old Dock at one time.