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Plumstead, so-named for being a good area for fruit growing, grew into a fishing village and later the growing population included workers from the nearby Royal Arsenal. The C12th St Nicholas Church was much added to and restored, having fallen into ruins on 2 occasions in the C17th and C19th. To serve the larger population further land for burial was purchased in 1860 and there were over 40,000 burials here, among them veterans of the Royal Artillery and Engineers. The churchyard was later closed for burials and gravestones cleared largely to the perimeter although one monuments remains near the church. Part of the churchyard was later laid out as the adjacent public garden.

This was once part of the former churchyard of the parish church of St Nicholas. Plumstead, so-named for being a good area for fruit growing, became a fishing village and later its growing population included workers from the nearby Royal Arsenal. To serve the larger population further land for burial was purchased in 1860 and there were over 40,000 burials here, among them veterans of the Royal Artillery and Engineers; an unmarked grave is that of Daniel Cambridge, VC. In 1955, following its closure for burial, the churchyard south of the church was laid out as ornamental public gardens and gravestones were cleared largely to the perimeter.

The site was previously known as Harrow Meadow, an area of boggy open land through which the River Quaggy ran. This was culverted by Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council in the 1930s when the area was being developed for housing, and 35 acres were landscaped for a public park, largely as playing fields. Sutcliffe Park opened in 1937, named after a former Borough Engineer; an athletics ground was added in 1954. To alleviate problems of flooding in the area when the river burst its banks, a scheme was drawn up in 1995 to lower the ground level of part of the park to accommodate flood waters. These works were completed and also included re-landscaping the park, which re-opened in 2004.

The Paragon is a crescent of Georgian houses linked by colonnades, designed by architect Michael Searles. The houses are fronted by a private roadway and crescent-shaped communal garden, which was provided for the private use of the residents. Abutting the public open land of Blackheath, this remains as a private semi-circular lawn, gently mounded in the centre, with a scattering of trees and shrubs, including two notable mature horse chestnuts.

The Plantation is one of the number of Span Development Ltd's private housing schemes in Blackheath, whose ethos was to set sensitively planned and designed housing units within well-considered landscaping. The Plantation was built on the site of a former market garden and nursery and consists of yellow brick terraces providing 34 housing units within a semi-enclosed communal garden. Maintenance of communal areas was initially undertaken by a residents' association with Span as ground landlord as nearly all Span schemes were originally leasehold properties.

The Priory at Blackheath Park was one of the first private housing schemes by Span Developments Ltd in Blackheath, whose ethos was to set sensitively planned and designed housing units within well-considered landscaping. Here the setting is thickly planted around drives with birch, Corsican pine, yew, cherry and profuse shrub planting, communal courtyard lawns, and landscaped pedestrian routes. The maintenance of the communal garden areas was initially undertaken by the residents' association with Span as ground landlord as nearly all Span schemes were originally leasehold properties.

The Tarn takes its name from the lake that dominates the small park, a remnant of the late C17th grounds of Eltham Lodge that was once within the Great Park of Eltham Palace, a royal palace dating from the C14th. Eltham Lodge was built in 1664 when Sir John Shaw leased the estate. When the area was being developed for housing, The Tarn was acquired by the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich in 1935 and laid out with paths and shelters around the existing lake. Near the entrance is a mid C18th brick ice-well built to supply Eltham Lodge with ice.

Trinity Hospital almshouses were founded by the Earl of Northampton, on the site of Lumley House, where Robert Dudley, Duke of Leicester grew up, and Queen Elizabeth I is known to have visited. Northampton set up his charity in 1613 for 12 'poor men' of Greenwich and 8 from Shottisham in Norfolk, the place of his birth, hence the name Norfolk College by which the almshouses were also known. He demolished Lumley House and Trinity Hospital was built in 1613/14, facing onto the river and set around a quadrangle with cloisters around a courtyard, and simple gardens behind.

Vanbrugh Park is a 1960s housing estate designed for Greenwich Metropolitan Borough, which comprises one tall block and a grid of 2-storey terraces in a landscaped setting of mature trees, a network of paths and communal spaces, with brick garden walls and pergolas. It is named after Sir John Vanbrugh who succeeded Sir Christopher Wren as Surveyor of Greenwich Hospital in 1716 and who lived in the area between 1719-1726,

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Well Hall is known to have been occupied from the C13th and in 1495 there was a moated manor house here owned by William Roper, whose C16th barn remains, now in use as a venue. In the C18th the medieval house was demolished and a new one built to the east, later the home of children's author E Nesbit. As the surrounding area was being built up, Well Hall estate was sold to Woolwich Borough Council in 1930 for a public park to cater for the new residents, the barn converted as a library and museum. The gardens were laid out by 1936 with a series of linked garden areas with ornamental planting and more informal areas, although the first part of the park opened in 1933, named Well Hall Pleasaunce. Much of the 1930s layout remains as well as historic features such as medieval walls, moat and bee-boles. The Tudor Barn is leased as a restaurant and venue.

This small public garden was laid out in the 1930s and opened in 1942, named after William Barefoot (1872-1941) who had been Mayor of Woolwich in 1925-27. At the entrance on Alliance Road are fine wrought iron gates with the Borough coat-of-arms. On a sloping site, the garden has an area of lawn at the base of the hill, with a path winding up through steep woodland and shrubbery to an entrance at the top of the hill.

Woodlands was a Georgian villa built for businessman John Julius Angerstein in 1774, which once had extensive grounds with a lake, ice-house and fine conservatory. Angerstein was a great patron of the arts and his Old Masters collection formed the nucleus of the National Gallery. Woodlands remained in his family until 1876 but the estate was largely dispersed in the early C20th. The house was a convent after WWI until 1967 and in 1972 was acquired by Greenwich Council, with a small part of the original grounds. It became an art gallery and local studies centre but later closed and is now Greenwich Steiner School, which moved here in 2008. Adjacent is Mycenae House, originally built in 1931-33 for the convent, which has been run as a Community Centre by an independent charity since 1994, set in pleasant gardens.