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Waterlow Park is a C19th landscaped park with remnants of earlier garden features of the C16th-C18th. It covers the land of 4 former private estates, Lauderdale House, Hertford House, Elm(s) Court and Andrew Marvell's cottage, which were amalgamated after 1865 by Sir Sydney Waterlow to create a single park. There are remnants of the older gardens, as well as those of Waterlow's time. A strong believer in provision of public open space, in 1889 he presented Lauderdale House and the 29-acre estate to the LCC 'for the enjoyment of Londoners'. The park opened on 24 October 1891; Lauderdale House, extensively restored, opened in 1893. The overall layout has changed little since the LCC plan of c.1895 and has formal flower beds, terraces and herbaceous borders, lawns and secluded areas, numerous fine trees and 3 ponds. Other features included a thatched bandstand, aviaries and tennis courts. The park was substantially restored in 2003-5 through an HLF grant with a new Park Centre on the site of the old glasshouses.

Putney Bridge Shrubbery at the south-west corner of Putney Bridge was formed on land purchased in connection with the erection of Putney Bridge in 1882-6 by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, which replaced an earlier bridge of 1727-9. The site is railed with grass, trees and shrubs. It was formerly the responsibility of the LCC and later passed to LB Wandsworth. It is deemed too small to be open to the public. In c.2004 it was renamed Waterman's Green.

The site used to be gasworks. Waterman's Park has recently been refurbished due to loss of public space opposite. As part of the project entrances and signs were upgraded through a community arts project. Metalwork artists Shelly Thomas based at the Forge in Kew Bridge Steam Museum worked with young people and a series of public meetings guided the designs. Either end of the park are metal arches, with symbols and herons on steel columns. Funded by LB Hounslow, the work was completed in 1997.

Watermeads is a remnant of the historic watermeadows alongside the west bank of the River Wandle, which for centuries had industrial usage with numerous watermills along its banks as well as watercress beds and trout fishing. The site includes an old fish pond and Paper Mill Cut, one of the Wandle's many channels and branches dug for milling. The land was in private hands until it was purchased in 1913 following an active campaign led by Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the National Trust, Watermeads becoming one of the first sites acquired by the Trust. From the interwar years until shortly after the end of World War II, a major planting initiative was undertaken by the River Wandle Open Spaces Committee and the National Trust with local schoolboys encouraged to participate in planting new trees. Since then Watermeads was developed as a nature reserve, and at one time was only open to keyholders. The wetland habitat became clogged and overgrown but since 2015 the Trust has undertaken significant  improvement and rehabilitation works and following a period of closure Watermeads Nature Reserve has now reopened with improved public access.

Watermeads Housing Estate was built in 1974-7 by Merton Borough Architects Department, one of a series of low-rise housing schemes that incorporated landscaping. It is on part of the former site of Mitcham Grove, a substantial house and estate that had existed here since medieval times, with eminent owners from Elizabethan times. After the death of the last resident, banker Henry Hoare, the house was demolished in 1846. A fine cedar tree remains from the former grounds. In the C20th the site housed film studios, then Hovis & Co. who had sports facilities here, before motor vehicle manufacturers Locomotors Ltd acquired the land, remaining here until 1973.

Formerly ornate gardens for the Royal Free Watermen and Lightermen's Almshouses, founded in 1839 for retired Watermen and their wives and widows. The almshouses opened in 1841 and remained in Penge until 1973 when the residents moved to Hastings. The property was acquired by the GLC and then sold for conversion into private housing. Part of the grounds remain in private ownership while the area to the south is now public gardens. The formal garden has a monument to local landowner John Dudin Brown, a freeman of the Company of Watermen, whose donation of 2 acres of land and 50 guineas led to the foundation.

Watling Park is within the Watling Estate, a large LCC housing estate built in the 1920s on former farmland, its design influenced by Arts and Crafts and the Garden City movement. The estate was named after the nearby pre-Roman route, Watling Street. Watling Park was the largest of the public parks and open spaces created along the large trace of open land running through the middle of the estate following the course of the Silk Stream and its tributary, Burnt Oak Brook. In June 1929 the land put aside for Watling Park was cleared of building materials and the public park opened in 1931. The landscaping includes a formal rose garden, numerous trees, and pedestrian bridges crossing the stream.

Now privately owned, the houses of Waxwell Close and their communal garden were built as artisans' cottages for low wage earners at the behest of Reginald Brightman, the owner of nearby Waxwell Farmhouse. The early C17th Waxwell Farmhouse had become the home of Captain and Mrs Trotter by the 1890s, who converted the house and laid out beautiful gardens. The plot that was laid out as Waxwell Close was purchased in 1915 by Mrs Trotter, whose heir Brightman was.

Wealdstone Cemetery was established by Roxeth Burial Board in 1902, the first burial taking place on 8 November in that year. The boundary with Byron Recreation Ground is hedged, and the cemetery's original stone and brick banded gate piers and entrance gates are of the same design as those at the recreation ground entrance. The Cemetery Superintendent's house was originally the gatehouse at the entrance to the recreation ground on Stuart Road. Serpentine tarmaced paths run through the cemetery, which has some scattered trees and a number of flower beds, with gravestones and monuments set in grass.

Weavers Fields commemorates the important silk and textile industry established in the area in the C17th following the arrival of the Huguenots fleeing from persecution. The area was badly bombed and the park was laid out post WWII, predominantly for sports activities but with some planting, including a wide path with hedging and a number of trees that runs east/west in the north of the park. Shrubbery is planted around the perimeter of the park, which is otherwise largely grassed.

The Weavers' Almshouses at Wanstead were built in 1857-9, designed by Joseph Jennings. They were rebuilt in 1975, retaining their original appearance, by F G Dobson and H M Grellier & Son at which time a parallel range was added behind, with an area of landscaped garden between the two. The almshouse originated from two foundations, the oldest in Shoreditch of 1670 and another of Spitalfields of 1729. The two-storey range has a taller central clock turret with the Weavers' motto 'Weave Truth with Trust' inscribed and a plaque 'The Almshouses of the Worshipful Company of Weavers, 1851, formerly in Porters Fields and Old Street Road Shoreditch'. The buildings are fronted by a garden with hedge to the road, and has a number of mature trees.

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Well Hall is known to have been occupied from the C13th and in 1495 there was a moated manor house here owned by William Roper, whose C16th barn remains, now in use as a venue. In the C18th the medieval house was demolished and a new one built to the east, later the home of children's author E Nesbit. As the surrounding area was being built up, Well Hall estate was sold to Woolwich Borough Council in 1930 for a public park to cater for the new residents, the barn converted as a library and museum. The gardens were laid out by 1936 with a series of linked garden areas with ornamental planting and more informal areas, although the first part of the park opened in 1933, named Well Hall Pleasaunce. Much of the 1930s layout remains as well as historic features such as medieval walls, moat and bee-boles. The Tudor Barn is leased as a restaurant and venue.