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St Paul's Church was built in 1827/28 on a site donated by Walker Gray, the owner of Southgate Grove, later named Grovelands, whose remaining grounds are now a public park. It was originally a chapel of ease to All Saints Edmonton, and became a separate parish of Winchmore Hill from 1851. The small Garden of Rest alongside the church was set up in memory of George William Lewis by his family and the Hayward Memorial Garden was provided by the family of Roland Hayward who died in 1987.

Tatem Park opened in 1937, laid out on a former gravel pit owned by two sisters, nieces of James Tatem, who donated the site to Edmonton Borough Council for use as a public park. In 1945 an area of wasteland was purchased and laid out as an ornamental garden, named after Cllr George Hollywood of Edmonton Parks Committee. The two sites were united in 1983 when further landscaping was carried out in the central area with the accent on wildlife conservation and numerous trees, wild flowers and native grasses were planted. They provide two distinct landscapes: the ornamental Hollywood Gardens in the south, and the less formal Tatem Park in the north. This lower area had clay deposits and 2 kilns are marked on the OS of 1894; bricks produced here were used to build surrounding housing. Excavations in 1913 unearthed remarkable discoveries of the last Ice Age in the form of skeletons and bones of Mastodon, Megatherium and Mammoth.

Tottenham Park Cemetery is a small private burial ground dating from 1912, which was originally established as a paupers' cemetery. A central drive lined with trees leads to the original brick Gothic chapel, since disused. It remains privately owned and is now particularly used for Muslim burials.The Friends of Tottenham Park Cemetery was set up in the early 1990s and has undertaken conservation works including a series of stepped wooden trellises with associated planting and seats.

Town Park is a surviving fragment along with Bush Hill Park Golf Course of the pre-Elizabethan Old Park estate of Enfield Manor. Part of the estate later became the estates of Chase Side House, which in the C19th had fine pleasure gardens, and Chase Park. In 1894 Enfield UDC purchased some of the estate lands and Town Park was laid out and opened in 1902, a bathing lake opened in 1905. Along the southern boundary runs part of the New River Loop, separating the public park from the private golf course.

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Trent Park was formerly part of the royal hunting park of Enfield Chase. When it was enclosed after 1777 a small part was retained as a miniature hunting park, the principal portion granted to Dr Richard Jebb, as a reward for saving the life of the King's brother at Trento in the Austria. A deer park and lake were laid out and an old lodge converted into Trent Place. After Jebb’s death the estate had various owners and in 1833 was bought by David Bevan, whose son Robert inherited in 1837 and renamed the estate Trent Park, which by mid-C19th covered 1,215 ha. In 1909 it was sold to Sir Edward Sassoon and inherited in 1912 by his son Philip who rebuilt parts of the house and laid out new formal gardens. In 1947 the house and c.81 ha. became Trent Park Teachers' Training College, and in 1951 the entire estate was compulsorily purchased by MCC as Green Belt land. In 1968 most of the land became Trent Country Park, which was officially opened in 1973.

Trent Park Cemetery was opened in 1960 by Islington Council. The land was formerly in agricultural use but had once been part of the hunting park of Enfield Chase at its far western edge. When the Chase was enclosed after 1777 a small part was retained as a miniature hunting park and became Trent Park, which by mid-C19th covered 1,215 ha. A farm called West Farm existed at Cockfosters from at least the C16th and was added to the Trent Park estate in the C19th. The cemetery has a small brick chapel near the entrance that contains a Book of Remembrance.

West Lodge Park, now a hotel, was built in the 1830s on the site of one of the three keepers' lodges built c.1419 when the deer park of Enfield Chase was divided into 3 walks, each the responsibility of a keeper. West Lodge was at times the official residence of the Chief Ranger of the Chase, which was owned by the Duchy of Lancaster from 1421-1937, although it ceased to be a royal hunting park after 1777. In the C19th there were a number of private tenants who improved the house and grounds, and it became a hotel in 1924. In 1945 it was purchased by Edward Beale, whose family continue to run the hotel. Beale established a fine Arboretum in 1963, and in addition the hotel grounds contain lawns, flower gardens, parkland and woods. The lake in front of the hotel was once a fishpond for the old keeper's lodge.

The Western Synagogue was established in 1761 and the Cemetery in Montagu Road opened in 1884 as its second cemetery. The land was initially owned by the Federation of Synagogues whose adjacent Edmonton Federation Cemetery opened in 1889. A portion of the land was sold to the Western Synagogue for its own, smaller cemetery. There are neat ranks of headstones, and a main path leads through the graves, but there are no buildings.

Whitewebbs Park is situated on former parkland laid out after the 1803 enclosure of the Enfield commonland. In 1570 a mansion called White Webbs was owned by Henry VIII's physician Dr Robert Huicke, to whom Queen Elizabeth I granted leave to obtain water from Enfield Chase to supply his mansion and grounds; the C16th Conduit House remains in the park. The old house was demolished in 1790 and the present house was built in 1791 on a different site. The New River originally ran through Whitewebbs estate and later became an ornamental lake after this section of the River was abandoned. In 1931 the estate was purchased by Enfield UDC and Middlesex County Council and made into a public golf course. In 2020 the golf course was initially closed at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, but in 2021 Enfield Council announced its permanent closure, and in late 2022 plans to lease part of the land to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club were announced.

Winchmore Hill Green is the remains of the old village green, once twice the size before encroachment by the 5 roads that converge here. The Edmonton enclosure map of 1801 shows a well-established settlement, many inhabitants engaged in work associated with the surrounding coppiced woodland. It remained rural into the 1920s and despite suburban development it retains a village atmosphere. Around the Green are a number of C18th and C19th buildings including the former village bakery at the south east corner. The village pond was filled in in 1908, although it was replaced by an artificial one. Today the Green consists of two open areas of grass with some trees and seats, and a cattle trough at one end.