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Gwendwr Gardens is on land that was once the site of the Cedars Lawn Tennis Club. The land was donated to Fulham Borough Council by R G Gunter and opened in 1949 as a memorial garden. The name of the road and park comes from an estate owned by the Gunter family in Wales. The garden has flagged stone paths, a sunken garden with pool, rose beds, shrub borders, lawn at the west with specimen trees and a low stone wall and hedge boundary.

The Hammersmith Estate, with blocks of flats of dark red brick, was built for the Peabody Trust in 1926 on a site that was once the Good Shepherd Convent. It was the last Peabody estate constructed with a separate bathhouse. In the central courtyard is a walled sunken garden with trees, shrubs and a lawn, which is contemporary with the original building, and was reputedly the site of the nuns' burial ground. There are single trees in other parts of the estate and raised beds by the entrances to the blocks, and overall there is much more greenery than many blocks of this type. The estate was badly bombed in WWII and the garden extensively damaged. It has now been restored by the Peabody Trust, working closely with residents.

Hammersmith Flyover was constructed in the 1960s, designed by B Rawlinson of the LCC. As it is only four lanes wide it was possible to cantilever it from a single support. Its construction involved the demolition of a number of buildings including St Paul's National School in Waterloo Street. The land remaining after the construction has been laid down to grass and planted with trees. The open space and the grace of the design of the flyover result in a remarkably open feeling to the area.

Hammersmith Park was built on land reserved for open space when the former White City Exhibition Grounds, created for the 1908 London Olympics, were redeveloped in the 1940s and '50s. The park was laid out with tennis courts and a playground in 1954, the remainder of the park opening in September 1955. The water garden in the south of today's park was once part of the much larger lagoon created for the Exhibition Grounds in 1908, known as the Court of Honour. Until WWI the Exhibition Grounds were used for a series of international exhibitions, including the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910. The Japanese Garden of Peace created for that event survived, although it became dilapidated in later years and was eventually restored in 2010. An important feature within Hammersmith Park, it is considered to be the oldest traditional Japanese garden found in a public place in Britain.

The Church of the Holy Innocents was built in 1890/1, a Gothic style building designed by James Brooks. The reorganisation of the church interior and redevelopment of the old parish hall site as sheltered housing in the late 1980s allowed the churchyard gardens to be redeveloped by Revd. Murray Grant. The garden adjacent to Dorville Crescent contains several mature plane trees, but additional shrubs have been planted. The old west door approach has been planted with colourful perennials and shrubs. The area to the south of the church has been grassed over, and shrubs planted along the wall of the church.

The Hurlingham Club Grounds are on land that was part of the manor of the Bishops of London, from whom in 1760 Dr William Cadogan leased 9 acres and built Hurlingham House. The riverside house and estate were enlarged over the years and had a number of private owners. In 1867 it was first used for pigeon shooting displays and in 1869 the Hurlingham Club was founded here. From 1874 until WWII the Club was famous for polo. After the war the polo grounds were compulsorily purchased for a public park. The Club continues as a private members' club with sports and leisure facilities set in fine landscaped grounds, that retain features of the earlier landscape.

Hurlingham Park was formerly land that was owned by the Bishop of London, later part of the Hurlingham estate with a fine riverside mansion and grounds. From 1869 it was leased then purchased by the Hurlingham Club, becoming famous for polo. The site of the park was the former No.1 Polo Ground between 1874 - 1937 with a concrete grandstand built in 1935 provided seating. During WWII part of the polo grounds were leased for use as allotments from 1942, and in 1951 the Polo Grounds were compulsorily purchased by the LCC for housing development and a public park. The site of former stables became a series of enclosed gardens with ornamental planting, bowling green, paddling pool and play area, and the polo ground became a running track and tennis courts. The park has numerous large plane trees in the western part dating from the period before the land was bought by Hurlingham Club from the Mulgrave House estate in 1879.

Imperial Square was built by the Imperial Gas Light & Coke Company, which had acquired the Sandford Manor estate in 1824 in order to establish its large gasworks here. This stretch of the Fulham riverside became a thriving industrial area in the C19th but by the 1970s it was largely abandoned. The 2-storey terraces were built to house workers, including Germans brought over to work at the gasworks at a time of strike, leading to the square's nickname 'German Square'. The houses overlooked an open space, although this was not landscaped until the 1980s, originally paved and having gas lamp posts, although the houses had generous front gardens.

John Betts House was built in 1964 as almshouses for elderly people of Hammersmith in memory of Dr John Betts (1799-1875) by the Hammersmith United Charities. This was set up in 1923 to amalgamate the large number of small charities that provided for the elderly poor in Hammersmith. The almshouses are on land bequeathed by Betts that the Charities held as investment property. The rectangular building surrounds an enclosed communal garden planted with grass, trees, shrubs and flower beds. Behind the almshouses is the residents' vegetable garden.

From 1878 -1896 26 Upper Mall, renamed Kelmscott House, was the home of William Morris, who founded the Kelmscott Press near here in 1890. It was once owned by Sir Francis Ronalds who constructed the first electric telegraph in the garden in 1816. From 1867, then called The Retreat, it was the home of poet, minister and novelist George MacDonald and his family, who Morris visited, much admiring the garden. Behind the house, now headquarters of the William Morris Society, part of Morris's former garden remains. A small lower garden has a variety of ferns that thrive well in its shady micro-climate, and the upper walled garden has lawns, shrubs, flower beds and trees, many of them plants mentioned in Morris's writing of his garden in the 1880s and '90s.

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Kensal Green Cemetery opened in 1833, the first commercial public cemetery to be established in London and built by the General Cemetery Company. The contract for the layout was awarded to John Griffith, with grounds to designs by Richard Forrest, head gardener at Syon Park, and laid out as an informal landscape park with a number of formal features. By 1834 the wall, gateway, lodges and Nonconformist chapel were completed; the C of E chapel was built in 1836-7; the catacombs were built along the north boundary wall. The cemetery was extended by a further 9 hectares in the late C19th and the Crematorium built here in 1939.

Lady Margaret School was established here in 1917. It comprises the former grounds of three historic houses, Belfield House, Elm House and Henniker House, which successively became part of the school. Belfield House, the original school building, and Elm House, added in 1937, are set back from the road and the school is fronted by shrubberies and mature trees behind a low brick wall with modern wrought iron railings. Henniker House was added in 1952. Behind the buildings is a courtyard garden with a central lawn surrounded by trees and shrubberies. There are several mature trees, in particular an old walnut tree, a kapuka tree, and a London plane tree in the hard games area. There are several shrubberies with a variety of shrubs and trees, and many potted plants, which enhance the facades of the newer buildings. With the construction of a new building in the grounds in 2010, a new pergola has been created and planted by this building.