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This small park was laid out as a public garden in 1880, formed from the churchyard of St Botolph Aldersgate. In 1890 it was enlarged with the adjacent disused graveyards of St Leonard's Foster Lane and Christchurch, Newgate Street, and further expansion took place in 1900. Postman's Park is so-called from its popularity with workers at the adjacent Post Office sorting office. The erection of the memorial shelter with its wall of tablets commemorating the heroic deeds of ordinary men and women who lost their lives to save others had been proposed by the artist G F Watts in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887, although it was not created until 1899.

The Reflection Garden at 25 Cannon Street was designed by landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith and opened on 7 July 2022. It replaced an earlier garden, which had comprised an area of lawn with a perimeter path surrounded by shrubbery and trees. An earlier post-war building was demolished and replaced in 2000, itself substantially refurbished and replaced in 2020 by the current office building. The new public garden has a reflection pool as its focal point, which mirrors the sky and the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. On top of the new building is a private rooftop garden planted in raised beds, using herbaceous plants and grasses.

The church of St Benet Fink was originally situated on Threadneedle Street, later rebuilt by Wren after an earlier church was destroyed in the Great Fire. Together with St Bartholomew by the Exchange and St Anthony's Hospital Chapel, St Benet's was demolished in 1842-44 to make way for the third, enlarged Royal Exchange and widening of Royal Exchange Avenue. The churchyard was acquired by Act of Parliament but had a long history, a C10th wheel-headed cross discovered here. To the west of the Royal Exchange is a paved area with a number of statues and a War Memorial, re-landscaped in 1985. To the east, adjacent to Royal Exchange Buildings, is a paved pedestrian piazza, Royal Exchange Square, aid out with a number of sculptures and a drinking fountain commemorating the jubilee of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.

Saddlers' Company Royal Charter dates from 1395, by which time the first Saddlers' Hall was built on this site, rebuilt after the Great Fire in 1672. A third building of 1822-33 was destroyed in 1940 and rebuilt by 1958 in Neo-Georgian style. Saddlers' Hall courtyard garden was re-landscaped in 1989 and consists of cobbled roadway with a raised bed planted with shrubs, a number of urns, and a sculpted horse's head. On the south wall is a carved pediment originally from the third Hall and formerly on the Foster Lane entrance.

Salisbury Square is on the site of the former forecourt of the large house of the Bishops of Salisbury, who had acquired the site in c.1200. In 1564 it was acquired by the Sackville family, later given the title the Earls of Dorset after whom nearby Dorset Rise is named. Although the square has some C18th housing, it was predominantly redeveloped from the 1960s onwards. The central area was laid out formally and is surrounded by cobbled roadway. It provides seating within a paved garden that has a raised bed at each corner planted with shrubs and small trees. In the centre is a granite obelisk that commemorates Robert Waithman, Lord Mayor of London in 1823-24. This was erected in Salisbury Square in the mid 1970s, but had originally been located in Farringdon Street.

The Salters' Garden lies between the old Roman City Wall and the new Salters' Hall built here in 1972-76. The Company, founded in 1394, had its first hall in Bread Street, then moved to Oxford House on St Swithin's Lane. It re-located here after the hall was bombed in WWII. The garden was originally laid out and opened in June 1981, but was re-designed in 1995 to commemorate the Company's 600th anniversary. Sunk below road level, the old City Wall forms its southern boundary. It is formally laid out as a knot garden and has three fountains, that to the west end set within a circular pond, and a central decorative urn near the Roman Wall.

Seething Lane Gardens is important for its associations with Samuel Pepys and it forms a green square in this part of the City. This was the site of the Navy Office, founded in 1656, in the garden of which Pepys and Sir William Penn reputedly buried their wine and parmesan cheese for safety from the Fire of London on 4 September 1666. A new Navy Office was built in 1682-3 but was demolished in 1788 when warehouses were built, replaced in 1910 by the Port of London Building. In the 1950s, a simple rectangular public garden was created here, bounded by railings and laid out symmetrically with a central path, well-shaded by trees, with rose beds to commemorate permission given in 1381 to Sir Robert Knollys to construct a bridge across Seething Lane (since vanished) for which the City annually charged him one red rose. In 1983 a bronze bust of Pepys was erected in the garden by the Samuel Pepys Club with funds raised by public subscription. In 2018 the gardens were completely redesigned when 10 Trinity Square was redeveloped as a luxury hotel.

This is the former site of one of the Serjeants' Inns used by the Serjeants-at-Law, a superior order of barristers dating back to at least the C12th. The Inn here appears to have been occupied from 1424-42 and then from c.1498-1730 after which it ceased to be used by the Serjeants, the building subsequently demolished. The Fleet Street site retained the name although following destruction by WWII bombing post-war buildings of 1951-58 were for commercial rather than legal use. A Neo-Georgian central block with 2 wings enclosed the cobbled Serjeants' Inn Courtyard, which had a fountain and some planting of small trees and shrubs but was otherwise largely used for parking. An archway leads to Inner Temple precincts. Nos.1-2 Serjeants' Inn are being developed as a 4-star hotel, due to open 2012, which will retain the central courtyard. No. 3 Sergeants' Inn has been barristers' chambers since 1986.

The Worshipful Company of Skinners were furriers whose first Charter was given in 1327. The site of Skinner's Hall in this location dates from 1409, although rebuilt after the Great Fire and with subsequent alterations. Entered through the Company's fine ceremonial gates on Dowgate Hill, the small Inner Courtyard was originally used for the formation of guild processions. The east elevation of the Banqueting or Great Hall, dating from 1670, faces onto the courtyard, its entrance flanked by embellished pilasters with carved rabbits, whose fur was used by the lower orders in medieval society. The paved courtyard has two C18th water containers planted with flowers, and the stone cloister was added between 1902-16. In 1984-6 a Roof Garden was created above new kitchens, and this is paved, with a fountain, planters and statuary. In addition a terrace at the rear of the Hall also provides outside space.

St Alban's Church may have originated as an C8th chapel built by King Offa, founder of St Alban's Abbey. The church was rebuilt in 1633/4 but was badly damaged in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt by Wren, completed in 1685. Following bomb damage in WWII it was demolished in 1955 apart from the Tower, which was restored in 1964 and later converted to a house. It stands on an island site in the middle of Wood Street, with minimal landscaping. The churchyard had been to the north of the building, now entirely built over by roadway and buildings.

A timber church on the hilltop site is referred to in AD951 and Roman pottery has been discovered here. The medieval church of St Andrew Holborn was rebuilt in the C15th and, although unaffected by the Great Fire, was rebuilt by Christopher Wren in 1684-90 having become dilapidated. Gutted in WWII, it was subsequently rebuilt in 1960/1. There was a churchyard by 1348, which was full by 1754 requiring a new parish burial ground to be set up. Part of the churchyard was lost when the road was widened in the 1860s and bodies from the old churchyard were exhumed. The former churchyard is now a sunken garden with gate piers of c.1870 at the entrance from Holborn Viaduct, from where steps lead down to the church. Re-landscaping of the churchyard and adjacent public garden to create one public garden is due to be completed in August 2014.

St Andrew Street Garden to the west of St Andrew's Church was the site of an old bank destroyed in WWII. The land had been acquired for highway improvements and prior to 1969 was simply laid out. It was later hedged to create a more secluded space, which had a public chequerboard table provided. Re-landscaping post-2004 provided access between the public garden and adjacent St Andrew's Churchyard and a further scheme is now underway to create one public garden, due to be completed in August 2014. Across Holborn Viaduct another area of planting laid out in the 1960s on land acquired for highway improvement was re-landscaped in 2007/8 with planting, seating and a water feature as part of the development of 40 Holborn Viaduct.