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Deans Brook rises on Mill Hill Golf Course and flows into the north of Stoneyfields Park where there is an area of woodland with willow overhanging the water. The stream has been widened in the middle of the park to form an ornamental lake, with a cascade as the stream flows downstream, its route taking a more natural course beyond the stone-lined channel where there is further woodland. There are a number of older trees within the park, including oaks, which pre-date the layout as a public park.

Sunny Hill Park was formerly Sunnyhill Fields and belonged to Church Farmhouse, whose garden abuts the south end of the park, which also includes an area that was once part of the churchyard of Hendon parish church of St Mary. In 1921 Hendon local council purchased 16 acres for a public park, which opened in 1922. It was enlarged in 1929 when further land was added. The park retains the rural character of the older landscape, with hedgerows denoting former field boundaries and mature trees.

Hampstead Garden Suburb was conceived by Dame Henrietta Barnett in 1903 when the area, hitherto rural, became ripe for development. Her aim was to provide a garden suburb for the working classes, with some larger houses as well as amenities. The overall layout was the work of Raymond Unwin. The street pattern followed the land contours, with curving and straight roads to create interesting viewpoints, closes and squares, numerous street trees, a pedestrian network of footpaths and a variety of green spaces. The first phase was largely built between 1907 - 1912 and included Heathgate, at the end of which is a terrace that overlooks Hampstead Heath Extension, from which it is separated by a low brick wall. The terrace has a few trees and bushes against the wall that surrounds it on the other three sides. The wall continues either side of the terrace creating the boundary between the private gardens and the heath and was inspired by medieval town walls.

Swan Lane Open Space was laid out for recreation by 1935 near the former site of a C19th estate. The area was used for gravel working, as a result of which in the 1960s or possibly earlier it was known locally as 'The Pits'. A small kidney-shaped pond, fed by a natural spring, was created in the park for model boating, with water lilies, rushes and jetty, now used for wildlife. The park is on hilly terrain with open grass and woodland that includes saplings as well as mature trees, both coniferous and deciduous. A group of giant redwoods and a Cedar of Lebanon are within a wooded area planted with conifers at the entrance on High Road Whetstone. Rose beds by the café have been planted in memory of two local residents, Vi and George Terry of Finchley; a memorial bench commemorates Tony Clark. Some parts of the park have now been left wild to form a natural area of long grass and smaller trees.

The Croft was built c.1898 by the successful Victorian architect T E Collcutt for his own residence, with formal gardens that contained a sculpture of a Triton by Henry Pegram. From the C17th and C18th onwards the area, with its fine views and relative proximity to London, gradually attracted wealthy people who built houses around Totteridge Green and along the east/west route of Totteridge Lane.

The Sternberg Centre is on the former site of Finchley Manor House, which once belonged to the Bishops of London and comprised a sizeable estate. A moated manor house is known to have existed by 1253, but there may have been an earlier house on the site. It was occupied by a succession of influential people and underwent numerous name changes over the years. All that remains of the once extensive moat is a dry L-shaped ditch at the far end of the grounds. The current building dates from 1723, built for Sir Thomas Allen on a new site outside the moat, who also had gardens laid out. The estate began to be broken up for development from 1849 and the house was leased as a school in both the C19th and C20th. In 1984 the Manor House Centre for Judaism was opened, later renamed the Sternberg Centre for Judaism.

Remnants of the rural landscape of Barnet Gate are still found among the private houses in the area. The Windmill is an early C20th Arts and Crafts style house in landscaped grounds adjacent to a preserved disused windmill with a circular tower. The Arkley Windmill was built between 1822 -40 and was in use until 1916; it was repaired in 1930 and 1974. Nearby a timber-framed barn of 1788 is in the grounds of another private house. This 3-bay timber-framed building with weather-boarding and a tiled room was used to store grain before it was milled at Arkley Windmill.

Totteridge Common today consists of grass and woodland, and has a series of old ponds, probably dug for gravel extraction. By the C13th the manor belonged to the Bishopric of Ely and Totteridge was a hamlet. From the C17th and C18th the area, with its fine views and relative proximity to London, gradually attracted wealthy people who built houses here. Totteridge Common was enclosed in the C18th. Although housing development accelerated after the arrival of the railway at Barnet, Totteridge retained its rural aspect due to Green Belt legislation and local pressure. Today it consists of grass and woodland and has a series of old ponds, probably dug for gravel extraction.

In the C13th Totteridge was a hamlet. From the C17th and C18th the area gradually attracted wealthy people who built houses here. Totteridge Green today consists of grassland, areas of woodland with a variety of trees. In the centre is a mature oak possibly planted in the C18th by Sir Peter Meyer, a Dutch merchant who lived in the area, who obtained permission from the Lord of the Manor to plant trees and to make ponds; Laurel Farm Pond remains in the south.

Originally called Victoria Recreation Ground, Victoria Park opened in 1902 but was originally planned to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. It remained Finchley's only public pleasure ground until 1914. The early layout included a bandstand as well as facilities for tennis and bowling, with a park-keeper's lodge at the south entrance and a small body of water was found along the boundary with Etchingham Road. Planting includes bedding displays and a formal garden.

This is a Victorian recreation ground laid out in the late C19th on land previously known as 'Mrs Cook's Farm'. Barnet Football Club played here in the 1889/90 season, before moving to a new ground in 1890. Victoria Recreation Ground has the remains of a formal garden comprising a circular mound with a perimeter walk laid out as a rose garden. Adjacent to this is a drinking fountain with the inscription 'Honest Water which never left man in the Mire', the gift of Morgan Harvey in 1882.

Finchley Garden Village was built on garden city principles by the Finchley Co-Partnership Society, which had been formed in 1908. The architect Frank E Stratton was from the local firm of Bennett and Stratton; he designed cottage-style houses in pairs, each pair individually designed and incorporating traditional rural architectural features, laid out around an informal green. Stratton died in June 1922 and is commemorated by a memorial lamp on the green, which also acts as a war memorial.