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Wardrobe Place is so-called after the King's Great Wardrobe, which housed the Crown's storage of clothing and arms. It was moved from the Tower of London to Lombard Street in 1311 and then in the 1360s to a house here that Edward III purchased from Sir John Beauchamp. The Wardrobe was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and the buildings in Wardrobe Place today date from the C18th and C19th. It is reached through an archway from Carter Lane, a paved courtyard laid out with a few trees and seats.

The land, part farmland and part woodland, was donated by Lord and Lady Waring in 1929 to provide a public park and playing field. It opened as Waring Park in May 1931. It was laid out with a raised terrace on the southern boundary with a number of shelters, since demolished as a result of vandalism in recent years. An area of woodland was retained and laid out with paths, and other areas were planted with flowers, shrubs and trees.

Warren House was built as a country house for banker Hugh Hammersley on land that was formerly part of the Coombe Wood estate of the Duke of Cambridge. Adjacent land was in separate ownership of horticulturalist James Veitch who developed a Japanese water garden, which was later brought into the grounds of Warren House. Later owners Lord and Lady Wolverton made additions to the house and gardens, and decorative features and planting dating from the late C19th remain in the grounds today. The house and part of the grounds are now a conference centre, the former water gardens once again in separate ownership as part of a luxury housing scheme.

Warren Park is open grassland with the railway on the north and south boundary, screened by mature trees. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the area of open land, wedged between railway tracks. A C19th house in the north-east corner was probably attached to the land in the mid-to late C19th. A clump of mature trees survives in the centre of the grassland.

Warrender Park was created on a fragment of the landscape park of High Grove. The Highgrove Estate was inherited by the Warrender family in 1894. In 1935 Miss Eleanor Warrender sold the 4.35-hectare site to Ruislip-Northwood UDP for a recreation area, which was initially named Eastcote Recreation Ground. By the late 1970s it was called Warrender Park after the family. High Grove Nature Reserve has woodland with parkland trees and a pond, possibly a relic from the former garden.

Warwick Dene is a small enclosure in the south-west corner of Ealing Common, dating evidently from shortly after Ealing Local Board's acquisition of the Common, now called a 'Rest Garden for the Aged and Blind and Those Requiring Rest'. There was previously a lodge in one corner, shown in the OS map of 1865 with a hedge behind it and a cedar in front, which was unenclosed to the west with a path running to the building. By 1914 the lodge is no longer shown and Warwick Dene has been built up. The garden has a simple lawn but with a notable Cedar, and horse chestnut, lime, and shrubs along the Warwick Dene boundary.

Warwick Square was laid out by Lord Kensington's surveyor William Cutbush between 1824-39 but it was not a successful development. It was later bisected by the roadway, now Warwick Gardens, a major one-way route south. In the centre of the road is an area of landscaping around the Queen Victoria Monument, a memorial erected by inhabitants of the borough of Kensington. Designed by H L Florence in 1904, the granite column is topped with an urn and has reliefs of the Queen on the faces. It was re-erected here in 1934. All that remains of the houses of Warwick Square are Nos. 1 - 9 Warwick Gardens. The central area with the memorial column has planters either side and a drinking trough to the south, sited here in 1899 by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association at the behest of 'R McC'.

A triangle of land of 0.13 hectares at Azenby Road at the western part of the present Warwick Gardens was acquired by Camberwell Borough Council in 1910 for £600, with a contribution from the LCC of £388. It was opened the same year as Azenby Road Playground, and maintained by Camberwell Borough Council as an open playground. It has since been expanded to the present Warwick Gardens, which was laid out post WWII.

Warwick Square takes its name from the Earls of Warwick who had a mansion in Warwick Lane from 1351. The square is overlooked from the north by buildings erected in 1966-72 to extend the Central Criminal Court, which had been built in 1902-07 on the former site of Newgate Gaol. Part of the earlier building was replaced and remnants in the form of four columns are within a small formally landscaped garden adjacent to Warwick Square. Landscaping in the square consists of two trees within an oval traffic island and a paved area in the south-west with shaped beds, a birdbath and a few seats.

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Warwick Square was laid out in 1843 as part of Thomas Cubitt's development of the Pimlico area on land leased from the Grosvenor Estate of the Duke of Westminster. The houses around the square were completed by 1865. From the early C17th until 1815 the area was largely used for market gardening. In recent years the railings, which were removed and replaced by chain-link fencing in the C20th, have been restored, the hoggin paths and rope-edge tiles have been re-instated, and new planting includes species found in Victorian times. Two Victorian mounds have been re-landscaped with timber forts, concealed paths and hiding places to create a redesigned children's play area.

Watercress Park is a simple rectangular grassed area railed at the roadside. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as a piece of open land with the river on the west border.

Waterlow Court is an enclave of cloistered flats designed in 1904 by architect M H Baillie Scott, his only multiple housing scheme for Hampstead Garden Suburb. It was built as a communal residence for professional single women by the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd, whose chairman was Lord Sidney Waterlow. Around the buildings are five landscaped areas with lawns, beds, a wild garden with 35 fruit trees and a 1939 pre-cast shelter. The layout remains similar today to that of Baillie Scott's original plan; it is likely that the planting scheme was inspired by Gertrude Jekyll.