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Broomhill Common is old commonland, registered under the Commons Preservation Act of 1965. Broom Hill Common Local Open Space has been used for public recreation since at least 1910.

Bullers Wood School was established in 1930 and occupies the house and grounds of a Victorian house, which was extended for John and Agnes Sanderson in the 1880s. Formal gardens were laid out around the house and the grounds contained fine woodland. The Sandersons continued to live here until 1920. A number of modern buildings have been added over the years to provide school facilities, although the landscape setting is preserved albeit somewhat altered.

Camden Park Golf Course was established for the newly formed Chislehurst Golf Club in 1894 on part of the former C18th landscape park of Camden Place. The old mansion was converted as the golf clubhouse and there are vestiges of parkland planting although it was largely altered when the golf course was laid out.

Cator Park was once part of the extensive Cator Estate, owned by the Cator family from the late C18th. The area that became the public park was laid out as private pleasure grounds principally for the private use of residents on the Cator estate who paid an annual subscription fee. For this reason it was already well matured as a park when the local council purchased the land in 1931.

Chelsfield House is now in use as Chelsfield Park Hospital within BMI Healthcare and retains some ornamental gardens with lawns, mature and semi-mature trees. There has been a house on the site since at least the late C18th and it was once the large Rectory owned by Revd Dr John Edward Tarleton, Rector of St Martin of Tours from 1834. The house was extensively remodelled from the 1890s onwards by the banker Edward Norman, whose family lived there until World War II. OS maps in 1900 and 1931 show Chelsfield House with surrounding grounds,

Chelsfield Recreation Ground is a small grassed area with playground within the village of Chelsfield dating from at least the C19th. The 1st edition OS map of 1871 shows the area as open space. In the 1838 tithe map this is part of a meadow called Gibbs Lane, owned and occupied by the Rector, the Revd Dr John Edward Tarleton, whose rectory was Chelsfield House. To the south, across Bucks Cross Road, is a larger open space adjacent to the village hall, with two sports pavilions and a large area used by the cricket club and for the village fair. This site almost corresponds to Little East Field on the 1838 Tithe Map, which again was in the ownership and occupation of the Rector. It lies immediately to the west of Great East Field (also the Rector's), which is now largely occupied by the village allotments. Both these fields are shown in arable use in 1838.

The Commons comprise grassland, heath, ponds and woodland that were once grazing land for Chislehurst and St Paul's Cray. In the mid-C19th encroachment threatened the commonland in order to extract gravel and develop the land for housing, which was opposed by a group of local residents. Their successful challenge led to the Metropolitan Commons (Chislehurst and St Paul's Cray) Supplemental Act passed in 1888, which set up a voluntary Board of Conservators to protect and preserve the land for the benefit of the community. Woodland now covers much of the former scrub and grassland although ancient acid grassland remains in parts. Former gravel pits form the 2 largest ponds now found on the commons and there is also a well-preserved cockpit. Numerous paths cross the commons and a number of recreational facilities are located here, such as the West Kent Cricket Club Ground. The Imperial Memorial is found adjacent to Prince Imperial Road.

The site comprises Chislehurst and Walden Recreation Grounds and Whyte's Woodland. The Chislehurst Tithe Map of 1844 shows the site of Chislehurst Recreation Ground as a field owned by Lord Sydney, Lord of Chislehurst Manor and a principal landowner at the time. At some time between 1908 and 1928 the land was acquired by Chislehurst and Sidcup UDC for use as a recreation ground. Walden Recreation Ground (to the north?) was named after Viscount Walden, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale who was born in Edinburgh but came to live in the area. In 1938 Miss Agnes Whyte conveyed by way of a gift the adjacent wooded area to the UDC, now known as Whyte's Woodland after its donor. This and the extension to the Recreation Ground opened in 1948.

Chislehurst Cemetery, the largest of Bromley's municipal cemeteries, opened in 1912. The need for a new burial ground was noted from 1905 when the parish churchyard of St Nicholas was becoming full. The land, formerly a field, was purchased from Robert Marsham-Townshend, the Lord of the Manor of Chislehurst and Scadbury. A design competition was held for the cemetery buildings, won by Curtis Green, architect of the Dorchester Hotel. Milner, Son and White were appointed landscape gardeners in October 1910 to design the roads, paths, layout and planting. The cemetery layout has changed little, although by 1960 it had been extended to the north by annexing part of Hoblands Woods.

Church House Gardens and Library Gardens are now one public park but were originally two sites: Library Gardens formed from the grounds of 'Neelgherries', and those of Church House. Neelgherries was bequeathed to Bromley Town Council in 1900 and the Library and Gardens were opened to the public in 1906. Church House Gardens, purchased by Bromley Town Council in 1926, were connected to the Library Gardens and opened in July 1927. The two open spaces were combined in 1930 and have dramatic topography with a lake at the foot of richly planted slopes.

The land formerly belonged to the Church. In October 1904 Beckenham Council approached the trustees of Churchfields Charity with a view to raising money to purchase a 20 acre plot of land for a public recreation ground in an area of Beckenham that was becoming densely populated. Churchfields Recreation Ground opened to the public in 1907 and had tennis courts, bowling green and children's playground.

Although laid out relatively recently, College Green was originally part of the lands of Bromley College almshouses and was long used for a nursery. In 1985 Bromley Council demolished the greenhouses here and created this new public open space. The landscape was improved in collaboration with the Friends of Bromley Town Parks & Gardens, including tree clearing and planting using plants recorded in the C17th, recalling the connections of this area with the Bishops of Rochester. Improvements were made to enhance the space in 2015, creating College Green and Slip Pocket Park, which provides a pleasant space close to the busy town centre for commuters and shoppers.