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The green at Fairoak Drive was laid out as part of the private Eltham Heights Estate, built from 1934 on former farmland of Avery Hill Farm. The 3-sided green provided communal open space for the surrounding housing, and is banked behind a low brick retaining wall with a number of fine mature trees that pre-date the housing development including oak and pine as well as more recent planting.

The gardens at Gloucester Circus are private communal gardens provided for residents of the houses that abut it. The development in this area took place from the C18th and Gloucester Circus was designed by Michael Searles as an oval circus. By the late C18th only the south crescent was completed, the north crescent not built until 1840, later damaged in WWII. The garden remains private and contains mature plane trees, grass and perimeter shrubs.

Greenwich Cemetery was founded 1856 by Greenwich Burial Board on a hilly site, which commands fine views towards both the City and Crystal Palace. The cemetery has two Gothic chapels, and a 1930s lodge at the entrance. Due to the proximity of the military academy and other institutions at Woolwich, there are numerous army personnel buried here. There is little mature planting, and particularly interesting tombs are found predominantly near the chapels.

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Greenwich Park's history dates back to pre-Roman times. After the Norman Conquest it became a large manor, which was inherited in 1427 by the Duke of Gloucester who enclosed the park in 1433. After his death it was taken by Henry VI's wife, and became the Manor of Plesaunce or Placentia and had associations with royalty until the early C18th. Henry VII built a royal palace here and the park was formally laid out for Charles II in the French style with a series of terraces and many trees planted, some of which remain. A great supporter of scientific research, Charles commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build the Royal Observatory here. Greenwich Meridian Line crosses the landscape, dividing the world into the east and west hemispheres. James II was the last monarch at Greenwich, his daughter Mary later donating the palace site for a hospital for sailors and the park was made available to pensioners at the Hospital. The public were first allowed into the park during the C18th.

Hallgate was one of a number of private housing schemes by Span Developments Ltd in Blackheath, whose ethos was to set sensitively planned and designed housing units within well-considered landscaping. Hallgate has a group of 26 flats, with a broad passageway leading to communal gardens behind. In the wall of the passage is a sculpture by Keith Godwin 'The Architect and Society' that was commissioned to celebrate one of architect Eric Lyons' planning victories. 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.

Hornfair Park was laid out in 1935 on land originally purchased for housing by the LCC that was transferred to the Parks Department for a public park. It opened as Charlton Playing Fields in 1936, with formal gardens and recreation facilities. Charlton Lido opened in 1939 and is the only remaining open-air pool in the borough. The park was renamed Hornfair Park in 1948 after the Charlton Hornfair, which was held on Charlton village green from medieval times until 1816. Until recently the park was unusual in having a canogie pitch for women's Gaelic football but this has now gone.

Kidbrooke Green Park is a remnant of the old village green, and the adjoining Nature Reserve is the last remaining marsh area of Kidbrooke. The area was largely farmed until the C19th, and in 1938 the farmland and remnant of the village green were sold to the Air Ministry for RAF Kidbrooke. In 1960 the former green was transferred to the local Council and was used for recreation, known as Rochester Way Playing Field. Kidbrooke Nature Reserve was created in the 1980s when the Rochester Way Relief Road was constructed.

The land was formerly common land, which was acquired from the War Department in 1952 and provided as public open space with funding from King George's Fields Foundation, which had been set up in 1936 as a living memorial to the late King. It comprises an area of open grass with a number of mature oak trees in the centre. At the south east corner is a brick structure with seating niche, either side of which are brick piers with the plaques recording the support of King George's Fields Foundation.

The land for Maryon Park was given to the LCC in 1890 by Sir Spencer Maryon Wilson, Lord of the Manor of Charlton. The park opened in 1891, laid out on a hilly site that was once ancient woodland known as Hanging Wood, and which had also been used for sand quarrying from the early C18th until 1870. Gilbert's Pit, formerly one of three sand and chalk quarries here, adjoins the park. The park has been extended south of Woolwich Road in the late C20th.

Maryon Wilson Park is on a hilly site and was created out of woodland known as Hanging Wood, which was once part of the estate of the Manor of Charlton. The manor was owned by the Maryon Wilson family from 1767 - 1925, who then gave the land here to the LCC for a public park, which opened in 1926. The park contains areas of woodland and open grass, and has a number of animal enclosures for deer and farm animals.

Morden College almshouses were founded in 1695 by Sir John Morden on part of the Wricklemarsh estate he had bought in 1669. A merchant who traded in the Middle East, the almshouses were built to benefit 'elderly and decayed merchants'. The red-brick buildings were laid out as a quadrangle, with landscaped grounds, which remain much as they appeared in the mid C19th. In 1992 the former burial ground in the grounds was laid out as a Garden of Remembrance. At the main entrance on Morden Road is a Lodge and fine railings, with views of the fine lawns, shrubs and specimen trees making a notable contribution to the road frontage.

The National Maritime Museum Complex is within landscaped grounds of lawns with wide pathways and mature trees. It was once part of the larger site of the royal Palace of Placentia that encompassed what is now Greenwich Park and the Old Royal Naval College, originally built as the Royal Naval Hospital. The Queen's House was commissioned by James I in 1616, but it was not completed until 1635 and later became the house of the Ranger of Greenwich Park. It was extended in the early C19th when it was occupied by the Royal Hospital School, who used the grounds. After the school moved out in 1933 the buildings were restored for the National Maritime Museum, which was established in 1934 and opened to the public in 1937. In 1999 the new Neptune Court was completed.