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Stanley Park is an open rectangle of land bordered by young and mature trees particularly to the north. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as open fields (common field) to the south of Carshalton Park.

Stanmore Common is a remnant of the once extensive common lands in Great Stanmore that were reduced by enclosure. There were two manors, Great Stanmore and Little Stanmore, and the area was rural until the C20th. Archaeological finds indicate that there was settlement here from the Bronze Age. The common today has woodland and heathland with an area of older woodland at The Grove. Stanmore Cricket Club was established in 1853 when an area of the common was enclosed for the purpose, once the site of an C18th bowling green.

Stanmore Country Park was part of the estate of Warren House, an C18th mansion with landscaped grounds as well as land in agricultural use. In 1937 the land was acquired for public open space by Harrow Council and Middlesex County Council and later owned by the GLC. It transferred to LB Harrow in 1976 and was designated a country park. It is managed as a nature reserve. It is possible that the ancient city of Sulloniacae was once situated within the Warren House Estate grounds.

Stanmore Golf Course was laid out on part of the former parkland of Stanmore Park, formerly an extensive estate with an C18th Palladian mansion that was demolished in 1938 when RAF Stanmore was established. Now surrounded by C20th housing, remnants of parkland planting include a few oak standards and belts, now blurred by golf course trees. Bellmount, a mound erected as a 'point de vue' from the neighbouring mansion at Canons on the estate of the Duke of Chandos, and Temple Pond north of Gordon Avenue, are other remnants of the earlier landscaping. Within the golf course is a fragment of the Duke's Grand Avenue of ancient oaks to the top of Bellmount, currently used as a green keeper's maintenance track. North of the golf course is Montrose Walk, a linear woodland park running from Gordon Avenue to Wolverton Road that may have been a former estate lane.

Stanmore Marsh is former commonland that is shown on maps from the late C16th onwards, although Marsh Farm to the east is marked in 1520. Today what remains of the marsh as open land is on the east of where Marsh Lane becomes Honeypot Lane, divided into two sections by Whitchurch Lane. It appears that it was once at the boundary of the adjoining parishes of Great Stanmore and Little Stanmore and was grazed by the livestock of commoners from both parishes. It is an important site for nature conservation.

The site of Stanmore Recreation Ground was probablly once part of the estate of Stanmore Hall. The original house was built in the C18th by the Duke of Chandos who owned the Canons estate. Stanmore Hall was added to by later owners, and in 1847 it was re-sited, when the present house near Little Common was built by J M Derick for John Rhodes. The recreation ground was laid out in the 1930s and has fine trees at the entrance on Dennis Lane including mature oak and areas of shrub planting near the pavilions.

A place for trading in the C13th and C14th, Staple Inn was used by the legal profession from c.1415 until c.1884, and since 1887 has been the home of the Institute of Actuaries. A 'Staple Hall' is recorded here from at least 1292 and it may date from even earlier. Parts of the surviving buildings date from the late C16th when Staple Inn was enlarged, including the half-timbered Elizabethan range facing onto Holborn with an arch leading to the internal Courtyard. The Garden south of the Hall has existed here since the late C16th and today has fountain, flower beds, trees and shrubs. The Courtyard is paved and has a number of mature plane trees, seats and lamp posts; its well and pump provided the water supply to the Inn until the 1930s.

Starch Green is so-called as the site was once used for a laundry green. It was a flooded brick pit that was filled by an unnamed stream that flowed from Wormwood Scrubs down the Askew Road. The land was conveyed to the Hammersmith Vestry free of charge in 1894. The pond refilled gradually post-1926 and was planted up with shrubs. Originally entirely surrounded by roads, the north side was paved in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s the end of Ashchurch Grove was closed and paved. A raised bed planted with periwinkle was built and much of the planting is recent although there is one mature London plane tree.

New Barnet was developed gradually from the 1850s, after the arrival of the railway but it was not until the end of the century that it was fully built. The War Memorial is on an island surrounded by busy roads and has a bronze winged figure on a tall obelisk surrounded by a small landscaped area of evergreen trees, raised flower beds.

Stationers' Hall Garden is on the site of the former burial ground of St Martin-within-Ludgate. The church, said to have been founded in the C7th, certainly dates from at least the C14th. Before it burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666 the church was situated just outside the City walls adjacent to the Lud Gate. After the Fire the church was rebuilt by Christopher Wren to the west of its earlier site, its west wall incorporating part of the old Roman Wall. Behind the church is the private garden of Stationers' Hall. The Worshipful Company of Stationers was established in 1403 and built the Hall on the present site in 1611. The Hall has an outer courtyard and a secluded inner garden whose current layout dates from the 1930s, shaded by a mature plane tree.

Stave Hill is on a site which once was part of the Surrey Commercial Docks, which were created on former pasture and marshland in 1864 when Rotherhithe's C19th commercial docks were amalgamated and came to cover over 185 hectares. The Docks were closed in 1969, and Stave Hill is an artificial hill created from spoil when the docks were infilled in 1985/9. From the hill are fine views and at the summit is a bronze map by Michael Rizzello, 1986, commissioned by the London Docklands Development Corporation. The hill overlooks a nature reserve created by the Trust for Urban Ecology, which was planted with saplings in 1987. Trees include field maple, alder, ash, birch, aspen, cherry, rowan and oak and numerous shrubs plus a number of ponds.

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

Avenue House, built in 1859, was acquired by Dr Henry Stephens in 1874, son of the inventor of Stephens ink. He enlarged and improved the property and grounds, the latter laid out by Robert Marnock with lawns, ponds, mounds and rockwork, a network of informal paths and steps, a paddock and walled kitchen garden. Planting included a fine collection of trees. In 1918 Stephens bequeathed the house and 10 acres of grounds to 'the people of Finchley' on condition that it should be 'open for the use and enjoyment always of the public under reasonable regulations'. Put to various uses after Stephens's death in 1918, the property eventually opened to the public in 1928. The present gardens are reduced in size, but the planting and most of the path layout has remained unaltered since the 1870s/1880s.