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When the post-war public park, Spring Gardens, was re-landscaped in 2012 it was renamed Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens reflecting the famous gardens of that name that had provided exuberant entertainment here from 1732-1859. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens had developed out of an earlier place of recreation and assignation known as New Spring Garden, established in 1661 and visited by such luminaries as Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn and Jonathan Swift. Spring Gardens was created following WWII bomb damage on the former site of the old pleasure gardens although there is not an unbroken link between the two, housing having covered the site from the demise of the pleasure gardens in 1859 until 1970s slum clearance led to the creation of the new Spring Gardens in 1976. Two 18m high columns, erected as part of a re-landscaping scheme of 2012, adjacent to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, mark the new entrance and evoke the spirit of the former pleasure grounds. Vauxhall City Farm abuts the public park, set up in 1977 as one of the Jubilee City farms with funds from the Silver Jubilee Celebration Committee. In 2017 on another former historic entrance to the pleasure gardens a new building, The Cabinet, was opened in 2017 with new planting introduced around the building and the Cherry Walk introduced to give structure, traversing diagonally the park from the new building to the columns near Vauxhall stations.

A small area beside the main road, Vernon Square was laid out as a garden in the late 1950s. Already part of an enclosure leased by the New River Company to Finsbury Borough Council, in 1957 the MPGA negotiated that the site be provided as a public garden. It opened to the public in 1960, a paved area with some seating, with short flights of steps from Vernon Rise and the main road, shrub beds at the corners, and trees along the main road boundary and across the centre of the garden. Re-landscaping has taken place and the garden is now enclosed by railings.

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.

Vicarage Gardens is a small public garden on the former site of the Vicarage of All Saints Church, which had a large garden, although much reduced by the construction of Putney Bridge Approach. The Vicarage moved to its current location between 1915 and 1921, when the old house was demolished and the public garden laid out. It has 2 large plane trees, rose beds, shrub borders and a kiosk (boarded up). The site of the former vicarage was close to where Fulham War Memorial was erected in c.1921.

Victoria Drive Open Space is a landscaped open space and garden at the rear of Fairlawns (q.v.), a large mansion now converted for private residential use. The gardens were once part of the original grounds, as marked on OS maps of the 1890s, which shows the pond that remains in the gardens. A small built structure may be a relic of the earlier estate.. The gardens are part of the Ackroyden (west) housing estate, that includes Oatlands Court to the north of the garden.

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Victoria Embankment Gardens comprise a series of public gardens created from 1864 following the embankment of the Thames by MBW's Chief Engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, although Sir Christopher Wren had conceived of a continuous embankment in 1666. The four landscaped sections are all bounded on the river side by Victoria Embankment, and in each are formal gardens, statues and monuments. Temple Gardens is the most northerly section. The Main Garden, created on the site of Adelphi Gardens, was the second to be laid out and opened in May 1875. Whitehall Garden followed, laid out in 1875. The Ministry of Defence section was laid out in the 1950s when the Ministry of Defence was built between 1939-59; in the north-west corner are remains of the old Whitehall Steps to the Thames, 'Queen Mary Steps', discovered in 1939. In addition, Temple Place, the balustraded roof terrace above The Temple Station (1870), has long provided additional public open space, and since 2021 has been the site for a contemporary sculpture project entitled The Artist's Garden.

Victoria Homes are 6 single-storey almshouses dating from 1897. They face onto a strip of garden, which has mature trees including pollarded limes, cherry, almond and robinia, and a tall bay; it is laid out with mown grass, perennial flowers, privet hedging and paths.

Victoria Lane Burial Ground was established in 1871 by Harlington Burial Board at the same time as the extension to St Peter and St Paul's Churchyard was made. There are railings at the entrance and various monuments, with a number of conifers planted, and a rough path leads from the entrance centrally towards the middle of the cemetery.

Originally called Victoria Recreation Ground, Victoria Park opened in 1902 but was originally planned to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. It remained Finchley's only public pleasure ground until 1914. The early layout included a bandstand as well as facilities for tennis and bowling, with a park-keeper's lodge at the south entrance and a small body of water was found along the boundary with Etchingham Road. Planting includes bedding displays and a formal garden.

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Victoria Park was created as part of a government initiative to provide public parks for London's expanding suburbs. It officially opened in 1845, laid out with a perimeter carriage drive, belts of trees and formal bedding displays. The lake in the western section originally had 3 islands, a cascade, ornamental footbridge and a pagoda, and was popular for bathing. Another bathing lake was later formed in the eastern section and was for a time divided into 3. Over the years new facilities have been added, and the park underwent major restoration in 2012.

This is a Victorian recreation ground laid out in the late C19th on land previously known as 'Mrs Cook's Farm'. Barnet Football Club played here in the 1889/90 season, before moving to a new ground in 1890. Victoria Recreation Ground has the remains of a formal garden comprising a circular mound with a perimeter walk laid out as a rose garden. Adjacent to this is a drinking fountain with the inscription 'Honest Water which never left man in the Mire', the gift of Morgan Harvey in 1882.

The land for a recreation ground was initially leased from the Earl of Lovelace in 1888 and was later purchased in 1901. Originally known as Balaclava Recreation Ground, in 1902 it was renamed Victoria Recreation Ground for Queen Victoria. The park is rectangular with a central pavilion; a perimeter path runs along the boundary with Balaclava Road and along the railway that borders the park to the south are trees and shrubs, with seating at intervals. A central path divides the main area of grass, with a drinking fountain gifted by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association where the path meets the perimeter along the railway.