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Royal Blackheath Golf Course is laid out on the former Great Park of Eltham Palace, incorporating the new landscape of Eltham Lodge that was established after Sir John Shaw took over the lease of the Palace estate from the Crown in 1663. Eltham Lodge was built for Shaw in 1664 and is now the golf clubhouse. Other remnants of the earlier landscape include C17th garden walls and an early-mid C19th garden pavilion. The history of golf at Blackheath dates back to the arrival of James I from Scotland and the Blackheath Golf Club was instituted in 1608. The prefix Royal was added in c.1849 and in 1923 the club moved from Blackheath to merge with Eltham Golf Club, which had been established in 1892, leasing the former Great Park for its golf course.

The former burial ground of the Royal Hospital for Seamen is a railed area within the grounds of Devonport House, with a number of monuments outside the boundary railings. The Hospital or almshouse for the relief and support of seamen was built from 1696 on the site of the royal palace at Greenwich at the wish of Queen Mary. The first pensioners arrived in 1705 and by 1755 there were 1,550 occupants. The Devonport Mausoleum was built in 1750 and has a plaque recording the first burial in 1749; by the time the Hospital was closed in 1869 some 24,000 men and some women were buried here, although many of the remains were later cleared. In 1873 the buildings were taken over by the Royal Naval College, which retained the Infirmary as a Free Hospital for Seamen of All Nations. From the 1870s much of the area was laid out as pleasure grounds for the Royal Hospital School. Devonport House was built in 1926-29 as a Nurses' Home.

Severndroog Castle, a Gothic folly, was erected by the widow of Sir William James (d.1783) in the grounds of Park Farm Place, which he had purchased in 1774. Sir William had worked for the East India Company and the name recalls his capture of a pirate fortress on the island of Severndroog off Malabar in 1755. By the C20th it was part of the grounds of Castlewood, whose last owner's will offered the estate to the LCC for public use. The grounds opened as a public park in 1922, with Severndroog Castle retained although the main house was not. Castle Lodge remains at the entrance of the driveway, which leads through remnants of landscaping to the Castle, crossing the Ha-Ha.

Shooters Hill Woodlands include Oxleas Wood, Jack Wood and Castle Wood, as well as Sheperdleas Wood and Eltham Common. There are areas of ancient woodland at least 8000 years old and coppicing was practised from medieval times until the 1920s. Shooters Hill follows the old Roman Watling Street, and the area was notorious for highwaymen. Bodies of convicted highwaymen were hung on gibbets along the road as a deterrent. The woodlands came into local authority management in the C20th, some areas on the fringes having been in private ownership such as Castle Wood and Jack Wood, both acquired in the 1920s and have remnants of formal gardens. Oxleas and Sheperdleas Woods were purchased in 1936, as was Falconwood, a house initially used as hotel, later incorporated into Oxleas Woods. Oxleas Meadows to the east of Jackwood was originally the site of Wood Lodge.

Shrewsbury Park is land on Shooters Hill that was once part of the estate of the Earls of Shrewsbury, whose C18th mansion, Shrewsbury House, was replaced in 1923 by a new house of the same name, now a library and community centre. The grounds of Shrewsbury House were leased for an LCC Open Air School from 1908 and in 1928 the LCC purchased part of the grounds for public open space, which became Shrewsbury Park. In the 1930s remaining areas of the former grounds were developed for housing, notably John Laing and Son's Shrewsbury Park Estate, designed on Garden City principles. Just outside the park is the Shrewsbury Tumulus, the remains of a Bronze Age burial mound.

Southwood Park is a small recreation ground provided by Woolwich Borough Council post WWII when it was making a concerted effort to acquire sites for public open space. New Eltham had developed after the station opened in 1878. The park is adjacent to New Eltham Library, behind which is a former Civil Defence Centre used in WWII. The south frontage of the park has a planted shrubbery with grass and trees, with railings to the road, behind which the land is open grassland with a playground and sports pavilion. The football pitch to the north-west was used as a cricket field in the late C19th and until c.2003 was in the ownership of LB Bromley..

St Alfege Church is on the site of martyrdom of Alfege, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was kidnapped and later murdered by the Danes in 1012. The first church was built soon after his death. Due to the proximity of the royal palace at Greenwich the church has many royal associations and was where Henry VIII was baptised. Greenwich later lost its prominence; following storm damage in 1710 the church was rebuilt under the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711. Among those buried here are Thomas Tallis (1585) and General James Wolfe, who died in action in Quebec in 1759 and was brought back for burial in the family vault. The former churchyard adjacent to the church has grass and trees, surrounded by cobblestones, and perimeter planting; remaining tombstones are stacked by the church.

St Alfege Park is on part of the former burial land of St Alfege, whose churchyard was extended in 1803 but eventually closed for burials in 1853. The west part of the burial ground containing the old mortuary was converted into a public garden in 1889 and its layout remains largely unchanged. The present church is the third on this site, built on the place of St Alfege's martyrdom on 19 April 1012. Due to the proximity of the royal palace at Greenwich, the church has many royal associations. The park is separated by a path from the church and original churchyard, with an entrance gate set into the brick wall. Numerous tombstones and graves are within the garden and around the perimeter.

The village of Eltham existed by the C11th, with a church from at least the C12th. The burial ground is likely to be of the same date. The present church of St John the Baptist was consecrated in 1875 and contains the remains of a sarcophagus from the C12th church. Eltham grew and became a suburb when the railways arrived and the area was developed. The churchyard entrance has a C19th lych gate, from where a path leads to the church. Among fine C18th and C19th monuments are those of John T North of Avery Hill, the family vault of Sir William James, and of the Blenkiron family. One of the first Australian aborigines to visit Europe was also buried here in 1794.

A church in Charlton is mentioned in 1077 and the manor was within Bermondsey Abbey until the C16th. The medieval parish church of St Luke, built of chalk and flint, was demolished and largely rebuilt in the 1630s. The small churchyard, now closed to burials, has gravestones set among grass, trees including yew, a number of shrubs in front of the building, and a flagstone path from the small entrance gate to the church. On the nearby village green Charlton Hornfair was held on St Luke's Day, 18 October, until 1816.

St Mary's Gardens were laid out in 1894 on the former churchyard of the Woolwich parish church of St Mary Magdalene. Woolwich was a riverside fishing village in the Middle Ages, which grew to prominence when the Royal Dockyard was established nearby in 1512, and later developments such as the Royal Arsenal. The parish church was rebuilt in 1727-39 when the medieval church was in danger of falling into the Thames. The churchyard closed for burials in 1865 and was later laid out as a public garden, the gravestones largely moved to the perimeter. Most remaining monuments were cleared in 1968, apart from the memorial dedicated to Thomas Cribb (d.1848), a famous bare knuckle boxer who lived in Greenwich.

Deptford was originally a riverside village called Depeford and there has been a church on this site since at least 1183. In Tudor times Deptford developed into a small town largely as a result of the shipyard established by Henry VIII in 1513, and by 1730 had two parishes, that of St Nicholas at Lower Deptford and St Paul's at Upper Deptford. The diarist Sir John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a church warden of St Nicholas and lived at Sayes Court, formerly Deptford manor. The late C17th walled churchyard has a charnel or watch house, and contains many tombs. It was the burial place of Christopher Marlowe following his fatal stabbing in 1593.