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The Culvers is an area of open land to the north of Hackbridge comprising the River Wandle. It is the site of the C18th-C20th landscape park of the Culvers Estate. The site has areas of rough parkland and long grass with paths and mature trees. The 1867 OS map shows an extensive wooded area within an area of river channels with parkland to the south of Culvers House. Formerly open parkland, the area is now mostly developed for residential housing, the old garden reduced to a few scattered trees with remnants of mill heritage.

Now renamed The Parabola, the Commonwealth Institute was conceived in the late 1950s to house a static permanent exhibition, surrounded by landscaped gardens. Completed in 1962 to a low budget, its main feature was a hyperbolic paraboloid copper roof, and gardens designed by Maurice Lee of RMJM, with contributions from Sylvia Crowe. The building and gardens were opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1962. The landscaped gardens featured large London plane trees, an avenue of lime trees, grassed area, shrubberies, flagpoles, and a water feature with pools and fountains. From the late 1980s the building was used for commercial exhibitions to try to bolster funds, with limited success and in 2002 the building and gardens were closed. In 2007 Chelsfield Partners acquired the site and in 2009 submitted a planning application for a new home for the Design Museum in The Parabola and a residential development, whilst retaining the main elements of the gardens. Planning permission was given and the Design Museum opened in 2016. However, Sylvia Crowe's modernist landscape has been lost and the site was subsequently removed from the NHLE,Register of Parks & Gardens.

The Duke of Northumberland's River is an artificial waterway, originally cut in the late 1530s to bring water to power a mill at Isleworth owned by the Bridgettine Convent at Syon. After the convent was dissolved, the land went to Lord Protector Somerset in 1547. The estate later passed to the Duke of Northumberland who used the watercourse to supply ornamental ponds in his gardens. The Isleworth or eastern section diverts water from the Crane River as it runs through today's Kneller Gardens, eventually reaching the Thames at Isleworth, where the mill was situated. A public footpath runs along much of its route and passes a number of interesting sites that illustrate Isleworth's rich history. The western section of the Duke of Northumberland's River diverted water from the Colne River at Harmondsworth in Hillingdon to the Crane, running for part of its course alongside the Longford River, another artificial waterway constructed in the C17th. The Duke of Northumberland's River was purchased from the Duke in 1931 and today its maintenance rests with a number of agencies.

St Mary-at-Lambeth Church dates from 1377 and was restored in the 1850s, but by 1971 the church was redundant and threatened with demolition, its churchyard unkempt. In 1976 the Tradescant Trust was formed and campaigned to save church and churchyard for conversion into a museum and conference centre for garden history. The site has particular importance for garden history with 3 generations of the Tradescant family of plant collectors buried here. By February 1979 sufficient funds were raised and restoration began. The former churchyard behind the church was laid out as a C17th style knot garden. The Museum of Garden History, now renamed the Garden Museum, was officially opened in 1983 by HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Among the monuments in the garden is the Tradescant sarcophagus of 1662, and that of Admiral William Bligh of 'The Bounty', erected in 1817. The Museum has undergone further development since it opened, most recently in 2015 when a major redevelopment project was undertaken to provide a much larger space for the permanent collection to be displayed, two new learning spaces, a new cafe and two new gardens, replacing the 1980s courtyard garden and the churchyard in front of the church.

The Gardens is a relatively rare example in this part of London of a C19th residential garden square. The green enclosure remains in private ownership, for the use of the residents of surrounding houses. At one time there were tennis courts and croquet lawn but today the garden is largely grass with a number of mature trees, and perimeter shrubs and hedging.

The Goring hotel has been run by the Goring family since opening on 2 March 1910. It was founded by Otto Richard Goring, who purchased the land from the Duke of Westminster and demolished a public house called The Sun and small houses that had covered the site since at least the 1870s. The new hotel was designed by Giles, Gough & Trollope and was the first hotel where each of its bedrooms had an en-suite bathroom. It was extended north on Beeston Place in 1925-6. The private garden at the rear of the hotel was acquired from the Duke of Westminster in 2005 and has well-kept lawns, shrub borders and mature trees and a number of sculptures. In WWI the hotel was used as the command centre by the Chief of Allied Forces and in WWII the hotel accommodated 150 Polish officers. The hotel has long had connections with royalty, with many famous guests staying here.

The Grange was an outbuilding of an early C18th farm known as The Grove. In the C19th improvements included transforming this outbuilding into a cottage, called Rose Cottage until it was sold in the 1870s. At that time the garden had a croquet lawn and conservatory. In 1962 The Grange was purchased by Willesden Borough Council. Threatened with demolition for a road scheme in 1970, the roundabout was then constructed around the building and in 1975 it was renovated as a local history resource. From 1993 to 2004 it was used as Brent's local community history museum, which had an old well from the original farm in the rear garden, and a nature reserve to the front. In c.2006 The Grange was purchased by ABi Associates, a company providing space and training to local and charitable organisations.

The Grapsome is the remains of ancient woodland managed as coppice wood with standards, now a small copse on the western boundary of the borough. The site was eroded when the Esher By-pass was built in 1974/5. The area was previously known as Graplingeham, probably so-called after an early owner and is thought to be a moated manor from before the Norman Conquest. By the C19th it is marked as woodland called The Grapsome on the first OS map of 1865.

Hampstead's former village green at the end of Flask Walk was once larger, but today is a small area of grass with a number of trees. In 1712 it was the site for the first Fair recorded taking place in Hampstead, and there were once village stocks and a Watchman's hut with 2 cells. The Wells and Campden Baths and Wash Houses built in 1888 can still be seen facing the Green, the site chosen for its proximity to the original Chalybeate spring on Well Walk. By the early C20th the Green was owned and maintained by Hampstead Borough Council.

Although the area remained largely undeveloped until late C18th, Sidcup Green was recorded as commonland in the tithe return for Chislehurst. Goats and donkeys grazed here in earlier times. It was once known as Place Green; part of the commonland was encroached in the late C18th when Charles Minshaw built Place Green House, since renamed Manor House, which faces the Green from the north. The Green appears little changed over the last century and has grass with trees along east and west edges; a raised bank forms the south boundary planted with a line of well grown Lime trees, beyond which are the grounds of Sidcup Place. A C20th War Memorial with ornamental planting faces the Manor House.

The Greenway was created in the 1990s as a linear footpath and cycleway along the top of the Northern Outfall Sewer Embankment, which had been built between 1860-65 to carry London's sewage to works at Beckton. It was designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette for the Metropolitan Commissioners for Sewers at a cost of £164,000. The elevated embankment was known as Sewerbank until it was given the name The Greenway when it was designated a cycleway and footpath. Due to its proximity to the Olympic Park, improvement works to the route took place in the early C21st. The Capital Ring Walk follows the Greenway for most of its distance.

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

The Grove is within Alexandra Park and was originally the grounds of The Grove, built in the C18th on the site of an earlier house. It was famous as the summer residence of Topham Beauclerk, great grandson of Nell Gwynne and friend of Dr Johnson, who commissioned the landscaping of the grounds, which were much admired. The house remained in private ownership until 1863 when the grounds were sold to the Alexandra Palace Company and opened as part of the park. The house was demolished in the 1870s. Various attractions came and went over the years including a miniature village, tennis courts, a bandstand and refreshment pavilion. A narrow belt of trees and shrubs with a serpentine walk runs along the west perimeter and to the north is a knoll picturesquely planted with old yews and other conifers some of which may date from the C18th.