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Haydon Hall Park is part of the former grounds of Haydon Hall, an early C17th mansion, now demolished. The estate was acquired by Middlesex County Council in 1936, and the house and grounds were then owned by Ruislip-Northwood UDC, the park predominantly used for cricket. The park has the remains of the old lake, and the planting throughout is predominantly of the C19th with some fine trees.

Hayes Park is the landscaped park of a Victorian mansion, which was replaced by offices and a research centre for Heinz Corporation post-1961. There are a good number of C19th and possibly earlier oaks in the grounds, now augmented by Leylandia clumps. Around the lawn is a brick ha-ha and to the north and east is woodland of Hayes Shrub. Heinz has since sold and then re-leased the site from the subsequent owner.

Hillingdon and Uxbridge Cemetery opened in 1856, a notably early municipal cemetery. At the main entrance on Hillingdon Hill is the original gatehouse with its entrance arch. The cemetery has a pair of Early English style chapels, Church of England and Non-conformist, which were designed by Benjamin Ferrey. The cemetery has fine trees, including a good spread of ornamental conifers, notably Wellingtonias, cypresses, cedars and araucaria. A mature Araucaria is beyond the wall to the south, and also a fine old oak pollard from the pre-cemetery landscape.

The public park was made out of former parkland of Hillingdon Court, the house and gardens of which are now the American Community School. The park has a fine spread of early/mid-C19th parkland oaks, with one or two older trees, some quite massive, plus one large clump of oak creating a woodland area, and another smaller clump. A fairly recent plantation has mixed tree species including oak, silver birch, poplar, aspen, sycamore and other species. Near tennis courts are ornamental rose gardens and a hedged garden with conifers, shrub beds and specimen trees.

Hillingdon House was the former manor house of West Hillingdon, an old settlement on the way to Uxbridge. The house was rebuilt in 1717 by the Duke of Schomberg but largely destroyed by a fire in 1844 and rebuilt by architect George Mair. It has been an RAF Officers' Mess since 1915 when the RAF bought the estate. There is a serpentine lake in the grounds, which still stretch down to the River Pinn, although the character has been eroded by RAF use.

Holy Trinity Church was built in 1854 to serve the growing population of Northwood, paid for by the Grosvenor family, whose memorials are found in the church and its picturesque churchyard. Among those buried here are the architect Charles Harrison Townsend; some of the C20th monuments have interesting detailing, such as that of Eva Victoria Lindley. The lych-gate was erected to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII.

Ickenham Hall is a Georgian mansion built for the Crosier family, who farmed here until 1900. Now in the ownership of the local authority, the Compass Theatre has been built behind the Hall. The surrounding gardens comprise rough lawn, some holm oak trees, a group of C20th beech trees and fine horse chestnut trees. In front of the Hall is a walled garden enclosure with lawn and borders that have been planted with species reflecting the Georgian era.

The Manor Farm Site contains much of historical interest centred around remains of a Norman Motte and Bailey fort. It remained in use as a farm until 1932, when it was given to Ruislip-Northwood UDC. The historic buildings include the Great Barn, Cow Byre, and the Little Barn, which have been converted for public use in a pedestrianised area with some landscaping, including a scented garden for the blind. The Manor House now provides an interpretation centre.

Northwood Cemetery opened in 1915 as a consequence of the growth of population in the Northwood area. The land was once part of the former Ruislip Common, by then in municipal ownership. It is a neat municipal cemetery with shrub beds and ornamental grasses either side of the entrance, which is through gates with brick piers. There are numerous conifers throughout with various avenues of ornamental and evergreen trees. At the entrance is a small rustic pavilion. The land slopes uphill with a belt of trees at the cemetery boundary.

Old Park Wood is ancient woodland with records dating back to the Domesday Book. It was once within the boundaries of Harefield Park, an old estate whose early-mid C18th house later became the site of Harefield Hospital. The entrance on Hill End Road has remnants of the former gates and driveway, now ending in fields. The wood contains a large area of ancient woodland with mature oaks, birch and other species, and has good displays of bluebells in spring.

Pinkwell Park is on the site of former fields north of Pinkwell Farm and once part of the extensive Dawley estate. The recreation ground was laid out when the Bourne Farm Estate housing development was built from the 1930s onwards between the railway, Dawley Road and Pinkwell Lane. The park was transferred to Hayes & Harlington UDC on 1 January 1937. It suffered bomb damage in October 1940.

Pretty Corner is a small triangular area of public garden at the junction of Fore Street and Eastcote High Road. It was once the site of Guts or Gutt's Pond, and was laid out in the 1930s as a public garden. It has trimmed hedges on the two roadside boundaries and a central flagstone path; the rear of the site has shrubbery and trees. It is overlooked by the picturesque New Cottages, built for estate workers in 1879 and designed by Ernest George and Harold Peto. Peto's father, Sir Samuel Morton Peto, was a teant of Eastcote Hall.