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The Church of St Peter and St Paul was built on Chingford Green in 1844 to replace the old Chingford Parish Church of All Saints situated a little distant on Chingford Mount, which had by then fallen into a state of decay. The church and its surrounding graveyard are on former forest land, but it is now in the centre of Chingford and surrounded by roads. The churchyard is well planted with trees including holm oak and lime, and the area around Chingford Green retains some sense of its former village atmosphere.

St Peter-in-the-Forest is one of a number of 'daughter' churches to St Mary Walthamstow founded in 1840 in recognition that parts of the growing parish lay over 2.5 miles from the parish church. It was sited strategically on the fringe of the busy Wood Street area and serves an area known as 'The Forest'. The yellow brick church is in Italianate Romanesque style and, surrounded by its churchyard, is approached from Epping Forest abutting common land. Now closed for burials, the graveyard has numerous headstones in a natural, semi-wild setting with mature trees including oak, horse chestnut, yew and holly. In spring some of the tombs are literally covered with snowdrops.

Stoneydown Park is called after Stoney Doun(s), the name of a large field in the locality. The park consists of two areas. The first to be provided as a public amenity was the ornamental gardens, then known as Stoneydown Gardens, which were opened in 1920. In 1955 Stoneydown Recreation Ground was created from former farmland. It was acclaimed at the time as Walthamstow's most up-to-date recreation ground and children's playground. It was laid out with numerous facilities for children of all ages, including a plot of land left in its natural state and an adventure section. A footpath was created to link it to Stoneydown Gardens, and the whole area then became known as Stoneydown Park.

The Highams Park is on part of the former Highams estate, landscaped in the 1790s by Humphry Repton. Highams House is now Woodford County High School for Girls and the estate lands still exists in part, primarily as two adjacent park areas: Highams Park, owned by the Corporation of the City of London and part of Epping Forest, and The Highams Park, which was purchased by the local Council. It is on a triangle of sloping land on the eastern side of Repton's lake, which is within the Corporation land. In 1947 176 pre-fabs were erected here, removed in 1961 when this section of the park was re-established in the 'V' formed between two suburban streets.

Thomas Gamuel Park is a small park largely set out with playgrounds and sports areas, but with an area of undulating landscaping with shrubs and winding paths. It was redesigned in the 1990s.

Vestry House was built in 1730 to provide a workhouse and rooms for Vestry meetings. The site together with the small area of green in front is a remnant of Church Common. The workhouse expanded over the years but after 1840 Walthamstow paupers were moved to the new Union Workhouse and Vestry House was used by a number of other bodies. The oldest part became headquarters of the Walthamstow Literary and Scientific Institute, and then a private house. After its acquisition by Walthamstow Borough Council it opened in 1931 as a Museum of Local History and Antiquities. The garden originally stretched as far as Church Path but cottages were built on part of it in 1840 and the railway further encroached in the 1860s, although a piece of land was added in compensation for this. The workhouse garden was originally used for growing fruit and vegetables, and later became a display area for the Museum. Following a restoration programme it has been recreated in the style of an C18th workhouse kitchen garden.

Walthamstow Marshes, now designated a Nature Reserve, is one of the last surviving examples of natural marshland in the London area and still exhibits subtle signs of the post-glacial landscape and of the ancient Lammas lands system of management, under which the marsh was used for the common grazing of cattle, hence its historical name of Walthamstow Common Marsh. From spring to late summer the Marsh was left to grow and cut for hay according to a system of plots. Grazing ceased in 1934, but was re-introduced in 2003. Hay continued to be cut from parts of the marsh in late summer to help maintain its diversity of plants and animals. The site comprises a number of areas, including North Marsh, South Marsh and Leyton Marsh, with some areas, such as Lammas Meadow, Coppermill Fields and Bomb Crater Pond, named to recall its past history.

The site of Walthamstow Town Hall and Assembly Hall was originally part of the Chestnuts Farm Estate. The Town Hall and Assembly Hall were built in 1938-41 when Walthamstow moved its administrative headquarters from the old Victorian Town Hall in Orford Road. Designed by P.D. Hepworth, the civic buildings overlooked a large centrally-placed circular basin, to which an ornamental fountain was added in 1953 in commemoration of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation. The landscape setting of the buildings consists of generous sloping lawns on either side of the central driveway leading from ornamental entrance gates on Forest Road. Behind the Town Hall is Chestnuts Field sports ground. In June 2020 regeneration of the Town Hall site commenced as part of the Fellowship Square Development, with a new water feature replacing the fountain and basin. In June 2024 the new Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Garden was opened in Chestnuts Field behind the Town Hall, and a sculpture 'The Arch' by Henry Moore was unveiled to celebrate the opening of the new garden. 

Walthamstow Wetlands is the site of the 10 reservoirs built in Walthamstow between 1863 and 1904 and now owned by Thames Water that continue to supply 3.5 million people in London with drinking water. It was opened as a nature reserve in October 2017, managed by London Wildlife Trust, in a project through a partnership between Thames Water, LB Waltham Forest and London Wildlife Trust. Funding to renovate the site was received from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Thames Water and LB Waltham Forest, with Greater London Authority contributing to create the 2km cycle path that runs through the site. The nature reserve includes a number of built structures that reflect its original industrial purpose, including the Coppermill Tower that has a viewing platform and the Engine House, now the Visitor Centre and Café. A unique 'swift tower' has been built, in the shape of the original chimney, to house nesting swifts and roosting bats.

Highams mansion was built in 1764, the estate then purchased by John Harman in 1790, for whom Humphry Repton designed the landscape park in 1794, including a lake created by damming the River Ching, now within Epping Forest. In 1848 the estate was sold to Edward Warner who extended the house. From the 1890s land began to be sold off for building and the house was let in 1902. From 1904-14 it became home to the Bishop of St Albans, whose sister created a rose garden. It was a military hospital during WWI and in 1919 it was leased to Essex County Council and opened as Woodford County High School. The original house and circular grassed area remain, now surrounded by school buildings, with Repton's terrace on the west also extant. Tennis courts and a sports hall were built on the kitchen garden although a portion of the wall survives.