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St Catherine's Garden is a private residential garden within Westminster Abbey Precincts created within the monastic infirmary, which was built in 1154-61 and consisted of St Catherine's Chapel and an aisled nave of 5 bays. The present doorway was added in 1371-2 when the Infirmary Hall was pulled down and the sick and aged monks were given separate rooms around the Little Cloister. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, St Catherine's Chapel was allowed to fall into ruins and the garden has been laid out on its ruins, overlooked by a statue of St Catherine, set within a niche at first floor level.

The College Garden where medicinal herbs were grown for the monastery since the C11th, remains a private garden of Westminster Abbey although it is accessible to the public. Its name is taken from the old meaning of the word 'college', being a community of clergy. Enclosed by early C14th walls, the garden is ornamented with four weathered statues of the apostles carved in 1686 by Grinling Gibbons and Arnold Quellin that were formerly in the Queen's Chapel in the Palace of Whitehall. The Canon's House in the south-east corner is by J.L. Pearson (1882). Within the garden is a rose garden celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's accession in 1952 and more recently a herb garden was created to celebrate the monks who lived here and the foundation of Westminster School in 1560.

The public are admitted to this part of the Westminster Abbey Precincts / Westminster School complex. Dean's Yard is built on the site of The Elms and the former monastery farmyard. Since the C18th there have been 3 rows of trees and a central green here, but the high railings that once surrounded it were removed in 1967. It is still used occasionally as a football pitch by the school, a practice dating back many years. The school's playing fields were established in 1810 at Vincent Square.

The site of Westminster Cathedral was marshland known as Bulinga Fen in medieval times, reclaimed by Benedictine monks and used as a market, with the annual St Mary's Fair held on 22 July. Later a pleasure garden, in 1826 the Middlesex County Prison was built here. In 1884 it was purchased as the site for the new RC cathedral, with money raised following the death of the first Catholic Archbishop of Westminster in 1850, but the Cathedral was not completed until 1903. The piazza in which the Cathedral is sited is hard-landscaped and has a cross erected for Cardinal Basil Hume, who was Archbishop of Westminster from 1975 until his death.

Westow Park was originally acquired by the local authority for a children's playground in the 1890s. It was augmented by the purchase in 1969/70 of the grounds of two demolished C19th villas, Windermere and Walmer, together with part of a pre-fab estate at College Green. Windermere had been converted and enlarged in 1873-6 for use as the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, which also used Walmer. The park includes the remains of garden terraces created for the blind and an ornamental archway, formerly leading to the front door from Church Road. Within the park are horse chestnuts planted in the original gardens. A pond that was once in the grounds has been filled in since the 1950s.

When the A40 Westway flyover was built in the 1960s the road cut a swathe through this part of Kensington, leaving 23 acres of derelict land beneath it. A charitable trust was established in 1971 to develop the land for the benefit of the community, and since then the area beneath the flyover has been created with a surprising range of amenities. Gardens on the south were laid out through North Kensington Amenity Trust with lawns, numerous trees of a wide variety of species and shrubbery with secluded areas and seating. A wildlife garden, reached via a stile, was to the north of Westway, and there were facilities for horse riding and climbing. Westway Sports Centre opened in 2001 and continues to provide numerous sports activities. 10 acres of the former derelict land are now public open space.

Westwood Recreation Ground is a rolling parkland bisected by the canalised Kings Water, dammed at the centre of the park to form a small pond, with a bridge over the channel. Dating from c.1930s, the park is almost entirely surrounded by houses, with access from east and north through Gothic style gates and the area is surrounded by bare 2m high concrete slatted walls. There are notable C19th limes and planes in the north corner and scattered trees include holly, lime and ash. The children's playground is large and has landscaped mounds and a red metal bridge.

The private communal garden was provided for residents of the surrounding houses, which were built as part of the Gunter Estate development commencing in the 1840s. This area of the estate, including Wetherby Gardens, was built in the 1880s and the garden was available to freeholders and lessees of surrounding houses as well as in certain neighbouring streets including Ashburn Place and Harrington Gardens. The garden was laid out with trees, grass and flower beds. Surrounded by large blocks of houses, the garden enclosure can be glimpsed from the street through an archway.

Wettern Tree Garden was laid out from 1919 on by Eric Frank Wettern, whose family had moved to Sanderstead in the 1900s. He and his brother Herbert built houses and later purchased land to create gardens. Eric's garden at Roselands was a series of themed gardens, with specimen and rare trees grown from seed collected during business trips, and Herbert created a rose garden. A lifelong member of the RHS, Eric was a member and later President of the Sanderstead Horticultural Society, which in 1953 held its Summer Show in his garden at Roselands. When he conveyed his garden to Croydon Corporation for the benefit of the public in 1965 the name was changed to Wettern Tree Garden. The gardens now also include the Rose Trellis Garden created in 1967 and a Millennium Gazebo in 2000.

The White City Estate was in design from 1934 and was built in 1938/9 and post WWII on part of the former White City Exhibition Grounds that had been established for the London Olympics in 1908. Between the wars the Exhibition Grounds and pavilions had some usage but the land became derelict and in 1935 part was purchased by the LCC for housing development. Covering over 21 ha. The White City Estate was the largest LCC estate to that date. The housing blocks are laid out in a grid, surrounded by grass with numerous mature London plane trees, which predate the buildings.

The White Hart Lane Estate was one of several early LCC cottage estates and was built on land that was previously largely fields. The southern part of the estate was developed c.1905-15 and its provision of public open space and generous private gardens was made possible through a donation from Sir Samuel Montagu. The northern part was built between 1920-27. The design of the estate was influenced by Arts and Crafts ideals and the Garden City movement, with green verges, street trees, private gardens and public open space.

White Hart Lane Recreation Ground was laid out by 1914 to serve the growing population, and was provided with tennis courts towards the north of the site. By 1935 the park had a number of other facilities including further tennis courts and playing fields with pavilions, two drinking fountains, as well as a fairly substantial boating pond in the south east corner, around which trees were planted and footpaths laid out. This was evidently a popular facility and gave rise to the park's nickname of Pond Park.