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Sutton Garden Suburb was one of a number of garden suburbs set up by partnership organisations inspired by early developments such as Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Garden City movement and the pioneering town planning of Parker and Unwin. It was designed by Frederick Cavendish Pearson for Rose Hill Park Limited, which sold out its rights in 1913 to Sutton Garden Suburb Limited. Only a small part of the planned garden suburb was completed although there was some later infilling from the 1930s onwards. The internal space was formerly used as allotments but later fell into disuse.

Sutton Green was originally the northern tip of Sutton Common, which was left as open space when the Common was enclosed in the early C19th. The 1815 Inclosure map called the site a play area. In 1867 the site was called ‘The Green' and is shown with the pond at the south end. This was named Victoria Pond and had a weeping willow planted on its island to commemorate Queen Victoria's Coronation in 1837.

The Culvers is an area of open land to the north of Hackbridge comprising the River Wandle. It is the site of the C18th-C20th landscape park of the Culvers Estate. The site has areas of rough parkland and long grass with paths and mature trees. The 1867 OS map shows an extensive wooded area within an area of river channels with parkland to the south of Culvers House. Formerly open parkland, the area is now mostly developed for residential housing, the old garden reduced to a few scattered trees with remnants of mill heritage.

The Grove Park was once part of The Grove estate, itself originally within the sub-manor of Stone Court that dates back to the C14th. Stone Court was purchased by John Cater in 1697, but after his death the property was inherited by Thomas Scawen whose uncle, owner of the neighbouring Carshalton Park, had provided mortgages to Cater. Thomas Scawen lived at Stone House until his death and undertook landscaping works that partially survive. The estate was divided in the early C19th. What is now The Grove Park was purchased by Carshalton UDC in 1924 and opened as a public park.

The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as an open field to the north of Rose Hill roundabout. The park is named after Thomas Wall who paid for half of the land in St Helier in the 1920s when it became a park.

Wallington Green once belonged to the Lords of the Manor as wasteland, and marks the centre of the old village of Wallington. It may have originated as a bowling green, a name it is referred to on later C18th maps. The Duke's Head on the south side of the Green is of C19th date but was the site of an older pub, formerly called Bowling Green House and was privately owned until the 1830s when Young and Bainbridge brewers bought and extended the original building. Wallington War Memorial stands on the green, and there are flower beds and a few mature trees but no walnuts for which it was once famous.

The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the area as open fields. The garden in front of Wallington Library was formally laid out between the Town Hall and the library, which was built in 1936. The garden still has its central lily pond and the quadrants around the pond are ornamented with a number of yew trees. In the library grounds is a section of the Surrey Iron Railway, which was the first public railway in the world. It was opened in 1803 and closed in 1846; it was horse drawn and used for carrying only freight.

Warren Park is open grassland with the railway on the north and south boundary, screened by mature trees. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the area of open land, wedged between railway tracks. A C19th house in the north-east corner was probably attached to the land in the mid-to late C19th. A clump of mature trees survives in the centre of the grassland.

Watercress Park is a simple rectangular grassed area railed at the roadside. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as a piece of open land with the river on the west border.

Wilderness Island is an industrial landscape dating back to the C17th, with remains of watercourses belonging to mills situated at the confluence of two arms of the River Wandle. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the island under wood with an area to the south up to the railway embankment as open land. There is a well-preserved fish pond, and the site had former use as pleasure grounds. It is now maintained for its ecological value as a nature reserve.

Woodcote Green is an old village green, now a triangular piece of land bordered by roads. An old WWII air raid shelter is located in the south-west corner.

Woodcote Grove House was the former home of the Campbell-Johnston family, and is set in landscaped grounds that include Chinese and formal gardens of c.1910. Woodcote Grove House is now a care home for the elderly providing for 30 people. A self-contained nursing wing for 20 people has now been added.