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Tanner Street Park was opened in 1929. The octagonal Portland stone turret that had capped the tower of the Church of St Olave in Tooley Street was sited in the south-east corner of the recreation ground; St Olave's, built in 1738-9 by Henry Flitcroft and rebuilt in 1843-6 following a fire, was demolished amid much local controversy in 1928. The small park also has a drinking fountain, some ornamental beds, grass and a few trees, with tennis courts and a shelter in the north east.

The Tate Gallery was built in 1897 named after Sir Henry Tate who gave his collection to the nation and paid for the building. The site selected was part of the former site of the Millbank Penitentiary, which was demolished in 1890. Areas of garden flank the main entrance and as the buildings have been successively enlarged, the landscaped areas have also been re-modelled over the years. In 2000 the gallery was re-dedicated to British art and renamed Tate Britain, when the new Tate Modern was constructed at the former Bankside Power Station.

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Tate Gardens Streatham is a remnant of a villa garden laid out from 1835 that was improved in the 1880s for Sir Henry Tate. In the C20th it was occupied by St Michael's Convent and in 2000 developed for private housing. Although some of the features are lost there are remnants of the C19th layout. This includes a small summerhouse and the long terrace with low stucco wall, flights of steps and sphinxes that overlooks the main lawn, below which is the small lake. In the grounds are an octagonal gothic castle, Pulhamite rockwork resembling a gorge and other artificial stonework. The remains of the original kitchen garden and a 1930s orchard are also evident. Mature trees include Wellingtonia and holm oak.

The site was once part of Rush/Rushey Common. Houses built here in 1839 were demolished when the new library was built in 1893, paid for by Henry Tate, who had settled in Streatham Common at Park Hill in 1884. After his death in 1899 his widow commemorated his considerable philanthropy by the purchase of Brixton Oval, which she presented to the local Council for a public garden in 1905, to be called the Tate Library Garden. A bust of Sir Henry was erected by public subscription and the garden was laid out with raised flower beds and surrounded with railings. In 1937 a small area was taken for road widening in the 1960s and the garden was redesigned, at which time the railings were removed. Windrush Square was laid out on adjacent land in 1998, named to commemorate the arrival of MV Empire Windrush from Jamaica on 22 June 1942. In 2010 the two sites were brought together as a single entity to form one open space as part of Brixton Town Centre Masterplan with new planting, lighting and seating.

Tatem Park opened in 1937, laid out on a former gravel pit owned by two sisters, nieces of James Tatem, who donated the site to Edmonton Borough Council for use as a public park. In 1945 an area of wasteland was purchased and laid out as an ornamental garden, named after Cllr George Hollywood of Edmonton Parks Committee. The two sites were united in 1983 when further landscaping was carried out in the central area with the accent on wildlife conservation and numerous trees, wild flowers and native grasses were planted. They provide two distinct landscapes: the ornamental Hollywood Gardens in the south, and the less formal Tatem Park in the north. This lower area had clay deposits and 2 kilns are marked on the OS of 1894; bricks produced here were used to build surrounding housing. Excavations in 1913 unearthed remarkable discoveries of the last Ice Age in the form of skeletons and bones of Mastodon, Megatherium and Mammoth.

Tavistock Gardens appear to have been laid out in the 1990s to serve the residents of the Portabello area and at that time the garden was surrounded by high walls. The gardens were completely redesigned in 2001.

Part of the Bedford Estate development, Tavistock Square was formed in 1800 but the garden not laid out until 1825. The railed enclosure was for the private use of residents and the late C19th layout shows a perimeter path and axial walks radiating from a central circular feature. Now open to the public, it retains much of this layout today with mature London planes, flower beds and lawns. It contains a number of memorials: in the centre is a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi; in the south-east corner a memorial to Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake, one of the first women surgeons; a tree was planted in 1967 for the victims of Hiroshima and a large stone with plaque commemorates Conscientious Objectors.

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Teddington Cemetery opened in 1879, set up by Richmond Burial Board who ran a competition to select the architect to design the cemetery's layout, chapels, lodge and mortuary. The original layout was simple, with a main drive bisecting an oval path, in the centre of which were two gothic chapels linked by a porte-cochère, with a circular lawn at the final point of the main drive. The cemetery was extended a number of times, most recently in the late C20th. It is notable for its many fine mature trees, particularly in the area of the original cemetery, and has interesting tombs

The private communal garden was provided for residents of Tedworth Square, which was built in 1871 as part of the development of the Cadogan Estate. The land was acquired by the Cadogans in 1753 when Sir Hans Sloane's will divided his estate between his daughters, Mrs Stanley and Elizabeth Cadogan. Tedworth Square was named after the wife of Revd. George Sloane-Stanley, who came from Tedworth in Hampshire. The garden has mature plane trees, lawn, flowerbeds, and surrounded by modern railings backed by privet hedge.

Telegraph Hill Park is in two parts, an upper park in the south, and a lower park in the north, divided by Kitto Road. It incorporates the site of one of the Admiralty's C18th semaphore stations, which was in use until 1815, from which the park gets its name. The public park was the inspiration of the Managing Director of the Metropolitan Gas Co., who contributed £2,000 with similar amounts from the LCC and Greenwich Board of Works, to purchase the land from the Haberdashers' Company. The park was opened on 6 April 1895, and its layout included a bandstand, ponds and elaborate walks, with perimeter planting and a perimeter walk. A shelter and toilets were added later in the northern park, and tennis courts were built on the site of the semaphore station in the south part, which has magnificent views. The park has continued to develop and was restored through a grant from the HLF.

Templeton was built in the late C18th with a new east range added to the house between 1865-94, and later alterations to the south front undertaken for Lady Wimborne, who owned the house in the early C20th. It was built on land of the former estate of Roehampton Park, which was broken up by Thomas Parker, and got its name from its first occupant, Lady Elizabeth Templetown. It had a number of illustrious private owners and in 1930 became a hall of residence for the Froebel Institute. The grounds were once more extensive but in 1932 Roehampton Gate and Roedean Crescent were built over part of the estate. It has a carriage drive to the entrance and formal gardens to the rear.

The site, which comprises two adjacent sports fields, is partly public open space and partly sports ground. Its recreational use dates from at least the 1920s. In 1920 an area of land at the west of Tenterden Fields was bequeathed for sports and later named after John Billam; a large flat open space, it had a pavilion built for Selfridge's Sports Ground, which was opened by Princess Wiasenski, daughter of Gordon Selfridge; the pavilion was subsequently acquired by Middlesex County Council and was later in private use. An aerial photograph taken in 1928 shows the sports field and pavilion; the OS Map of 1935 shows the site laid out with playing fields, tennis courts and pavilions.