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Small public park probably laid out in the 1980s when the adjacent housing estate of Dells Close was built. However, prior to this it appears to have existed as a playing field, marked as such on the 1960 OS Map. The park today is largely laid out for children's play, and following improvements to its facilities it was relaunched in an event in which local children participated.

Epping Forest is all that remains of the once extensive Forest of Essex that became the Royal Forest of Waltham, and is now a tenth of its size in 1641. Enclosure took place as farming and housing encroached, with the loss of commoners rights. Although a protest by commoners was staged in 1817, by the 1870s the Forest was much reduced. When the Corporation of London purchased land for its cemetery at Little Ilford in 1855 this brought commoner status; in 1871 the Corporation began proceedings against the various Lords of the Manor with interests in the Forest who wished to enclose it. This resulted in the Corporation's purchase of all the remaining areas and the 1878 Epping Forest Act conveyed ownership and responsibility to the Corporation. On 6 May 1882 Epping Forest was opened by Queen Victoria, who dedicated it 'to the enjoyment of my people for ever'.

Friday Hill House stands on the site of the C16th manor house of the Chingford Earls with records going back to 1066, the estate at one time comprising 600 acres. The manor was owned by the Boothby family from 1608 to 1774 when it was bequeathed to Lydia Heathcote, half sister to Robert Boothby, remaining in that family's ownership until the 1930s. The garden was first recorded in 1631 with arbours, alleys, an orchard and a tree house. In 1838 the property was inherited by Revd Robert Boothby Heathcote who built the current house. The old moat dating from at least 1631 was included in the design of the garden. In 1940 the property was sold to the LCC and a housing estate built over much of the land. Nothing is left of the Victorian planting apart from a fine London plane tree and the residue of a woodland plantation to the east. The house became a community centre, its garden a large grassed area sheltered by boundary trees. In 2012 the property was put up for sale and the house eventually converted into private apartments and new housing built in the grounds as part of a gated development.

This small public garden is on a piece of land adjacent to Chingford Old Church (q.v.). At the entrance on the corner of Priory Avenue and Old Church Road is a granite plaque inscribed in gold lettering: 'GOOD MEMORIAL GARDEN, Presented to Chingford Urban District Council by the sons of Mr Thomas Good on the death of their father in 1932'. Steps lead up to the raised garden, which has rose beds, paths and a few small trees.

Harrow Green was established as a separate ecclesiastical district in 1879. Formerly forest land, this small triangle between road junctions was given to Leyton Board to be maintained as an ornamental enclosure. The War Memorial was erected after WWI, now commemorating the dead of both world wars, located in the centre of a formal 1930s style layout comprising a circular paved seating area with four radial pathways to the surrounding streets. Stone piers are at each entrance, those on the main entrance from High Street surmounted by small glass flame shades. Four planted areas have grass and lozenge-shaped beds, with small trees around the perimeter. Winter flowering cherry trees were replaced by silver birch in the C21st. Nearby is the 1930s Harrow Green Library on Cathall Road.

The site was acquired from the Highams estate in 1905 and the villa was built to a design of CFA Voysey for Lady Henry Somerset the following year. Lt. Col. Sir Stuart Mallinson was the owner from 1925-81 during which time he expanded the estate and by 1933 it was 25 acres. An arboretum was begun in 1953 when Lord Montgomery planted a walnut tree and a horse chestnut. A succession of eminent people who stayed at the White House planted trees over a period of 25 years. In the 1930s the Great Oak Garden was designed around a 500-year-old oak tree and the Rose Garden also dates from this time. The estate is now managed by LB Waltham Forest and the White House is Haven House Children's Hospice.

Henry Reynolds Park is a pleasant small park near the busy Green Man roundabout; the site was once that of Green Man Pond, a former gravel pit, later drained. Laid out in the 1960s/70s, the park consists of a slightly sunken garden with central circular bed surrounded by circular paths, with a semi-circular outer ring, probably encroached by new housing. Rose beds are laid out on one side of the circle and there are numerous seats throughout. Planting includes wooded areas, shrubs and hedges, with 2 Lombardy poplars at one edge and perimeter shrubs, some on slightly raised ground. Adjacent to a children's play area is single row of bricks set into the grass in the form of a partial octagon, set around a rose bed.

Higham Hill Recreation Ground is on land that was originally part of Higham Hill Common, also known as Millfield and Bramleylands, which was the largest of the three commons in Walthamstow. Enclosed in 1850, together these commons had covered an area of over 83 hectares, of which around 11 hectares were retained for 'spade husbandry, recreation and gravel digging'. In 1935 Higham Hill Recreation Ground was listed as having 9 tennis courts, a bowling green and an open-air draughts board. It has recently been remodelled and is now laid out as fenced sports pitches, bisected by a central poplar-lined pathway, the site of a spring from Essex Hall, the former house on the site.

Highams Park in Epping Forest is the surviving portion of about 55 acres of the landscape park of Highams laid out in the 1790s by Humphry Repton for the mansion at Highams, now Woodford County High School for Girls. His landscaping included a lake to the west in an area of forest known as The Sale, created with permission of the forest authorities to provide water for the deer in the woods and for recreation, and formed by a dammed section of the River Ching. In 1890 the lower part of Highams Park encompassing the River Ching and its boating lake was purchased by the Corporation of London, added to Epping Forest and opened to the public in 1891.

Jubilee Gardens was created for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. A plaque on the site records that it was undertaken by Leyton Society in 1977 The small open space consists of an open access paved area along the busy High Road, with raised beds, seating and shrubbery. It is opposite Langthorne Park, which was created in 2000 on the site of the former West Ham Union Workhouse.

Knotts Green was a hamlet along the route between Snaresbrook and Leyton, previously called Low Leyton. The area was rural until it was developed in the C20th. The Green has long remained public open space and today, somewhat encroached, it consists of a strip of grass and some trees. A former resident of the hamlet in the 1880s was Mr Gurney Barclay whose gardens and grounds here were admired and were famous for the observatory he built.

The site was formerly that of the West Ham Union Workhouse, which was built in 1842 in what was then a rural area. It later became Langthorne Hospital, named after Stratford Langthorne Abbey, which had owned much of the area in medieval times. After the hospital closed in the late 1980s the buildings were acquired for new housing, with the remainder of the site acquired to create a new public park. Langthorne Park was opened on 17 June 2000 and features a number of specially commissioned art features to enhance both the physical environment of the park as well as providing visual representations of the site's long history. An amphitheatre and pavilion provide community facilities adjacent to a children's play area; other facilities include sports pitches, a quiet garden with ornamental pond and a small lake with a fountain that is important for nature and wildlife.