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The public park is former parkland of the manor of Charlton. The manor house survives as a fine example of Jacobean domestic architecture with remnants of its formal gardens. From 1767 - 1925 it was owned by the Maryon Wilson family, who then gave it to Greenwich Borough Council and Charlton Park was opened as a recreation ground in 1929. It is partly separated from the grounds of Charlton House by a brick ha-ha of 1847. The north boundary wall dates mainly from the C17th and there is a notable Lime Walk aligned with Charlton House. The park is now dominated by sports pitches but there are a number of newly redesigned gardens, including a Japanese-style herb garden, and the adjoining pond garden.

To the west of Avery Hill Park and behind Holy Trinity Church and adjacent housing, is a small area of public open space that contains remmants of the medieval brick Conduit Head, which once housed a weir arrangement controlling the supply of water to the moat at Eltham Palace, later used to provide water to the palace itself. The small site consists of open amenity grass, with some perimeter trees.

Corner Green was one of a number of private housing schemes by Span Developments Ltd on the Cator Estate in Blackheath, whose ethos was to set sensitively planned and designed housing units within well-considered landscaping. Here the scheme comprises an open layout of 23 flats and weather-boarded houses set around a green. Maintenance of communal garden areas was initially undertaken by the residents' association with Span as ground landlord, as nearly all Span schemes were originally leasehold properties.

Cutty Sark Gardens is a landscaped area overlooking the Thames, which is of significance due to its position adjacent to where the famous tea clipper 'Cutty Sark' is moored. It was floated in the dry dock here in 1954, re-rigged and repainted, and opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957. Until recent refurbishment of the area as a result of a successful HLF bid, another famous vessel, Sir Francis Chichester's 'Gypsy Moth IV' was also moored here. Following a fire, the Cutty Sark was restored and re-opened in 2012.

Long a popular place of public resort, Eaglesfield at the summit of Shooters Hill was bought by Woolwich MBC and opened as Eaglesfield Park in 1908. The name may derive from the coat of arms of C18th landowner John Lidgebird, which had two eagles, or because the summit of Shooters Hill was known as a roost for eagles in medieval times. The park is in two parts, divided by the road, the eastern part an informal grassed area and the western part landscaped with a railed children's playground on the site of a former ornamental pond known as the Lily Pond.

East Greenwich Pleasaunce is the former walled burial ground of the old Royal Hospital at Greenwich. The land, a former orchard, was purchased when the Hospital's two burial grounds were becoming full and the new cemetery opened in 1857. In 1875 the bodies of 3000 pensioners were brought here from the old infirmary burial ground when a railway tunnel was cut through the site. In 1926 the burial ground was sold to Greenwich MBC. Railings around the tombstones were removed and part of the ground was landscaped as a park although the gravestones remain in the central area.

Eltham Cemetery opened in 1935 laid out as a regimented grid of plots with trees planted along the paths and around the boundary. To the south is a more wooded area with numerous mature trees and grassland. In 1956 Eltham Crematorium was added in the eastern section, with a Remembrance Chapel designed as a tiny replica of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Cathedral. To the east is a large landscaped Garden of Remembrance, planted with many trees, shrubs, paths, a pergola walk and lake with small waterfall. A series of Memorial Courts were opened in 1996.

Eltham Common and the neighbouring Shooters Hill Woodlands were once notorious haunts for highwaymen and other robbers; the site of a gibbet was in the north-west corner of the Common where criminals were publicly hung and their bodies left to decay as a caution to others. The land was purchased by the Office of Woods and Forests in 1812 and used by the War Department, although public access was permitted. In the early C20th Woolwich BC and the LCC applied to take over the site, but it wasn't until 1938 that nearly 13 hectares of the Common were acquired from the War Department as part of Green Belt legislation. Eltham Common consists of a roughly triangular area of grassland between junction of Well Hall Road and Shooters Hill beyond which is secondary woodland.

Part of the land is owned by the Crown Estate Commissioners. Eltham Green, a remnant of the former village green, is in three sections today, the middle section a traffic roundabout owned by Transport for London. There are some mature trees at the west end and a number of London plane trees, with some more recent tree planting at the east.

* on The National Heritage List for England, Parks & Gardens

Eltham Palace was built as a royal retreat, the manor having been taken into the Crown's possession in 1305. The estate included the moated manor house, a dovecote, deer park and a windmill. The land was added to by subsequent monarchs and by Edward IV's reign it incorporated 3 parks, amounting to 1300 acres. It was sold in 1649, the majority of the land to Colonel Nathaniel Rich who demolished most of the buildings apart from the Great Hall and Chapel although these were in ruins; the deer were slaughtered and the parks stripped of trees.

Eltham Park North was once part of the estate of Avery Hill and was acquired by the LCC in 1929/30 for public open space. To the south is an earlier LCC park, Eltham Park South, accessed from a pedestrian footbridge over the railway and Eltham Relief Road that separates the two park. In 1936 Shepherdleas Wood was added to the park, a large tract of native oak woodland, which is part of the ancient Shooters Hill Woodlands. In the centre of the park is Long Pond, surrounded by willows and ornamental shrubs.

Eltham Park South is on land that was once part of Colonel J T North's estate at Avery Hill. It was acquired in 1902 by the LCC after North's death in 1896 and laid out for public recreation. Eltham Park North was provided in 1929, the two parks divided by the railway and now also by the Eltham Relief Road, access between the two via a pedestrian footbridge. Trees include a clump of oaks and an avenue of horse chestnuts from the footbridge south, with some paths having avenues of trees. Eltham Park Lido opened in 1924 and was a popular facility but was closed in 1988. It has now been demolished and grassed over.