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The public are admitted to this part of the Westminster Abbey Precincts / Westminster School complex. Dean's Yard is built on the site of The Elms and the former monastery farmyard. Since the C18th there have been 3 rows of trees and a central green here, but the high railings that once surrounded it were removed in 1967. It is still used occasionally as a football pitch by the school, a practice dating back many years. The school's playing fields were established in 1810 at Vincent Square.

The site of Westminster Cathedral was marshland known as Bulinga Fen in medieval times, reclaimed by Benedictine monks and used as a market, with the annual St Mary's Fair held on 22 July. Later a pleasure garden, in 1826 the Middlesex County Prison was built here. In 1884 it was purchased as the site for the new RC cathedral, with money raised following the death of the first Catholic Archbishop of Westminster in 1850, but the Cathedral was not completed until 1903. The piazza in which the Cathedral is sited is hard-landscaped and has a cross erected for Cardinal Basil Hume, who was Archbishop of Westminster from 1975 until his death.

* on The National Heritage List for England, Parks & Gardens

Wilton Crescent was laid out as part of a largely intact planned development of houses and gardens on the Grosvenor Estate. The quadrant of houses forms a crescent encompassing a well-kept garden surrounded by C20th railings. The layout of the garden is little altered from that shown on the OS Map of 1869, with a large semi-circular lawn bounded by shrubberies, and a paved perimeter path. In the centre is a stone urn and several handsome cement planters of the 1930s.

Wool House Garden occupies the western portion of the terrace laid out on the site of the gardens of Carlton House, the residence of the Prince Regent, which was demolished in 1827. Many of the houses of Carlton Gardens, built 1830-33, survive and the area remains part of the Crown Estate. This garden is separated from Carlton House Terrace Gardens by Wool House, a 1960s office building. The garden comprises an island of grass, with perimeter shrubbery and a number of mature trees.

This is a private garden for the use of residents of York Terrace West, designed as part of John Nash's original conception for The Regent's Park, approved by the Treasury in 1811. His plan for developing the former royal hunting chase included the 400-acre park, which was to be surrounded by villas and terraces, the latter given names that reflected royal patronage. York Terrace, built 1822-3 and named for Frederick Duke of York, was designed as two groups, split by York Gate. The houses had their main entrances on the south and presented an uninterrupted façade to Regent's Park, fronted by a garden enclosure laid out with lawn, a series of planted beds along the north, perimeter path, and planting along the front and side boundaries, punctuated by entrances in the centre and at each end.