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Feltham Green is a remnant of Feltham Common; the village of Feltham was previously centred around St Dunstan's Church. The area remained agricultural until the 1920s and was important for growing food to supply London. In the C20th the centre of Feltham moved from the church to nearer Feltham Green and the station. On one corner of the Green is the Red Lion pub, one of Feltham's oldest buildings. A drinking trough donated in 1899 is in the south corner of the Green, which has a large pond fed by water from the Longford River. Feltham Pond (or Duck Pond) is the orginal and oldest village pond out of the three remaining ponds in Feltham and was mentioned in the licensing of 'The Red Lion' in 1722.

Feltham Park was laid out on former Glebe Land purchased under the auspices of the Middlesex County Council in 1938, with facilities for cricket, tennis, putting greens and football pitches. A sports arena was under construction in 1960. The Assembly Hall with a small clock tower overlooks the main area of open grassland, which has perimeter tarmac paths and some planting of shrubs and roses. To the north is an ornamental pool that was once fed from an underground stream, with a pergola running alongside the water. The park has a number of mature trees including London plane, oak, horse chestnut and various ornamental species, and a fine white poplar just outside the park boundary.

First records of a Friends Meeting at Brentford date from 1659, which lapsed when John Woolrich, at whose house the meetings were held, was arrested. In 1706 meetings were held in a barn in Old Brentford but from 1731 there was a movement to set up a new Meeting House. This led to the purchase in 1785 of a small plot of land from Benjamin Angell, a wealthy Quaker. The earliest burials took place in the area to the north of the Meeting House. In 1824 an additional strip of land to the south was given by Sarah Angell for a burial ground and it was used as such from 1855 onwards, remaining open for burials today.

Gunnersbury Cemetery was established in 1929 when the Borough of Kensington's Cemetery at Hanwell was full. Situated adjacent to Gunnersbury Park, the land was originally part of the Rothschild Gunnersbury Park estate. The chapel is a simple brick building, recently refurbished, and the drive from the entrance is lined with displays of flower tubs and floral bedding arrangements, including shrubs such as camellias and roses along the side walls. With paths laid out in a grid pattern, the cemetery has well-kept grass and numerous fine trees, including mature horse chestnut trees near the entrance that date from before the cemetery was laid out, part of Gunnersbury Park planting. A Garden of Remembrance has been established with a central sundial and seating.

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Gunnersbury Park is a former C18th estate with formal gardens, developed by Princess Amelia in the late C18th, and extended by Baron Lionel de Rothschild and his family in the C19th and early C20th when it was renowned for its gardens. In 1925 75 hectares of the estate, including the large and small mansions and garden buildings, were purchased by the boroughs of Acton and Ealing, with assistance from the MCC. It opened to the public in May 1926 and although its horticultural features were maintained, there was increasing emphasis on sports and recreation, with facilities including a bowling green, golf course and playground. A number of earlier landscape features remain, including the Potomac Pond with Pulhamite rock work; Princess Amelia's Bath House, Japanese Garden and Italian Garden.

Hanworth was once a royal hunting park of Henry VII with a lodge adjacent to the parish church, and was popular with later monarchs including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The estate was acquired in 1828 by Henry Perkins who built Hanworth Park House on part of the land. In 1917 it became a private aerodrome, later opening in 1929 as the London Air Park where a number of flying clubs were based, Hanworth Park House becoming the club house in 1935. In 1956 the grounds of Hanworth Park House and the airfield were purchased jointly by Middlesex County Council and Feltham UDC and the park opened to the public in 1959.

Heston Park was formally opened on 10 June 1933 by the Mayor of Heston and Isleworth, the fourth park to be opened since the new Borough Council replaced the Urban District Council in 1932. It was on the site of Heston Recreation Ground, which had long been used for Hounslow May Fair, granted a Royal charter in 1296; a site within the new park was reserved for the Fair.

This Grade 1 listed house, built between 1715-17 in the corner of a walled orchard, became the summer residence of the artist and satirist William Hogarth (1697-1764) from 1750 until his death. The triangular walled garden is bounded by a high wall to the north, now named Hogarth's Lane, and to the south and west by housing, with Hogarth's House built into the north-east corner. The garden was originally a walled orchard from which a mature mulberry tree survives. The property was acquired as a memorial to Hogarth in 1901 by a local benefactor who opened it to the public in 1904. The garden and house were restored in 1996/7 at the tercentenary of his birth with major refurbishment work undertaken in 2008-2011 and 2020-2021.

Hounslow Heath, one of London's largest statutory nature reserves, is the last remnant of the vast heath that once covered this area. It was created in the C13th when a stretch of royal forest between Hounslow and Staines was cut down. Although Henry VIII still hunted here in the C16th over 1700 hectares was commonland. The Heath became a place of military musters and a haunt of footpads, which brought it an evil reputation. It was not enclosed until between 1789 - 1819 in a series of Acts when land was parcelled out. Part of the area in the north was acquired by the government for military training in 1800. In the 1920s the first commercial air service was established on the east side and there were allotments and market gardens on the west. In 1977 a golf course was established on the west, the remainder maintained for nature conservation and recreation.

Inwood Park opened as Hounslow Recreation Ground in 1902, the first recreation ground in the area. A meeting of Heston & Isleworth UDC in March 1897 had agreed to provide a recreation ground in celebration of the Queen's Jubilee and the site of the new park was one of two suggested. Problems with purchasing the land delayed the park, and although it opened in 1902 it was only completed in 1905. There was ornamental beds and formal planting in the front half of the park and facilities for sports behind.

Isleworth Cemetery was set up by Isleworth Burial Board in 1879 when the parish churchyard at All Saints was full. The land was purchased from the Duke of Northumberland and the cemetery laid out with a network of paths, twin chapels, entrance lodge and mortuary. The first burial took place in 1880. In 1909 the Burial Board transferred the cemetery to the Heston & Isleworth UDC.

Jersey Gardens are linear public gardens laid out in 1930/31 when the area was developed. Gravel from the future site of the gardens had been extracted for the construction of the Great West Road in 1920-25. Its name derives from the Earls of Jersey, who owned the nearby Osterley Park estate. The original layout of the gardens featured a substantial sunken rock garden planted extensively with alpine plants; a small central garden with grass, trees, shrubs and circular shelter; tennis courts and children's playing field, later a playground. In 1936 a bowling green was opened to the west.