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Broadway Fields is a public park located close to Deptford Bridge in an area originally used for market gardening. It was formed from a piece of land next to the Kent Waterworks. It was here that the Deptford Pink, a variety of carnation, flourished. The last tenant was Henry Simpson, whose annual rental of the land from the Water Board ended when the land was acquired by Deptford Council in 1929 for use as a park. The park opened in 1932 as Deptford Municipal Playing Fields. In the late 1930s an extension across the River Ravensbourne was added giving a space for active recreation. Two bridges link the areas together.

Brockley Cemetery, originally known as Deptford Cemetery was established when the parish burial ground of St Paul's was full. Lewisham Burial Board had already purchased a plot of land here for Lewisham Cemetery, so Deptford Burial Board bought the adjacent plot and appointed the same cemetery architects. A low wall separated the two until 1948, which is traceable as a bank. In 1965 both came under the new London Borough of Lewisham but retain separate records although they operate under the name Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries. Brockley Cemetery today is more wooded than Ladywell and the tombs are generally grander and less densely packed; it contains a war memorial, chapel and the tomb of Jane Clouson.

Brockley Hill Park Estate Ornamental Garden is a hidden private garden owned and managed by residents of adjoining properties represented by a Trust formed in 1853, an arrangement common in Kensington and Westminster but unusual in south-east London. By the mid C19th the land was being developed by the Conservative Land Society as Brockley Hill Park Estate, offering plots for detached and semi-detached houses, a few shops, a church (not built) and an area reserved for an Ornamental Garden. In 1929 the Trustees purchased the two vacant plots that had been left for the access road for the church, ensuring that there was no road access to the garden. In 1951 Lewisham Borough Council wished to purchase the garden for public open space but this was vigorously opposed and the proposal was abandoned. The park consists of three terraces, the upper and lower of which are wooded with the middle terrace occupied by tennis courts since at least 1913.

Established in 2010, Brockley Station Community Garden was originally a wasteland that adjoined Brockley Station. The historic purpose of the site is unknown, but it is understood that it used to be part of the old Deptford Common and on the route of an old canal. In the mid 2000s, the Brockley Cross Action Group (BXAG) began a multi-year campaign to turn the site into a public area. With funding from Living Spaces Trust, Transport for London, and Network Rail, the space was cleared, renovated, and transformed into a community garden. Today, Brockley Station Community Garden remains under the management of BXAG and is tended by local volunteers. Situated on a raised site with steep terraced banks, the garden is home to planting beds, a wild meadow, and a wooded area that encourages local biodiversity.

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Brockwell Park was once part of a medieval estate owned by the Hospital of St Thomas, later in private ownership. It was subdivided in the early C19th when the eastern part was sold to glass merchant John Blades, for whom Brockwell Hall, now the park café, was built. The extent of the old estate is mirrored in the park boundary today. The last private owner planned to sell the land for housing but with the support of the MPGA a first portion of land was purchased by the LCC. Brockwell Park opened in June 1892, later expanded with further land purchase. An Old English Garden was laid out in the early C19th walled garden, and the park's features included ornamental ponds and formal bedding. Brockwell Lido was built in 1937 and has been restored, a survivor of London's once more common open air swimming pools.

This site is that of the late C18th/19th landscaped grounds of the former palace and official residence of the Bishops of Rochester, who had been given Bromley Manor in the C10th. The present building was erected in 1775, with later additions made in the 1860s after the Manor was sold to Mr Coles Child, who also made changes to the gardens. Much of the once extensive Palace parkland was eventually sold for housing and road construction, the old Palace became a girls school in the 1930s. In 1982 the site was purchased by Bromley Council for the Civic Centre. What remains of the former park is south of the Old Palace ruins, and includes the lake, once part of the medieval moat, two Pulhamite rockeries and a Folly incorporating medieval stonework created for Child, and possibly an C18th ha-ha, although this may also be the work of James Pulham & Sons.

Bromley College almshouses were founded under the will of Dr John Warner, Bishop of Rochester (d.1666) to provide a 'hospital or almshouses for twenty poor widows of orthodox and loyal clergy men in a position near to Rochester cathedral'. The almshouses were built in 1670-72 around a quadrangle; a long frontage faced the road, with slightly bigger dwellings forming 2 wings. A second quadrangle was completed in 1805 and Sheppard's College added in 1840. After 1821 the Chaplain and Trustees bought land to the east to prevent building and improvements were made in the grounds. Elms on the north and south lawn were removed along with the rookery and replaced with 4 great cedars; sale of the wood enabled grass plots and gravel walks to be laid out. Over the years commemorative trees have been planted, such as those to mark the Jubilee of King George V in 1935, and a Tree of Heaven planted by The Queen Mother in the Chaplain’s Garden in May 1977 for a rededication ceremony.

Bromley College of Further and Higher Education was established here as Bromley Technical College in 1959, the college campus set in extensive grounds that are vestiges of the C18th/19th landscape of the Rookery estate. The 1st edition OS Map of 1871 shows the estate and the college campus retains the same shape. Remnants of the former landscape include the lake, boathouse, fishing house, icehouse, and an oak clump in fields to the west of Elmfield House.

Bromley Hill Cemetery opened in 1907. The chapel and mortuary chapel were designed by Evelyn Hellicar, a local architect. The lodge is now gone, replaced by a modern house. The cemetery has a simple path layout, and among the trees are cedar, fir and silver birch. The monument to Edward Fuller (d.1935) is unusual, a besuited figure over whom an angel stands. Among those buried here were Sir Edward Campbell (d.1945), MP for Bromley; Soho gang leader 'Italian Albert' Dimes (d.1972), and Roy Marchand (d.1940), a Battle of Britain pilot whose photograph was used on RAF recruitment posters. The cemetery, now full, has a lawn section and a memorial garden. It is located within the boundaries of the Borough of Lewisham.

Bromley Recreation Ground was laid out on part of the former grounds of a C16th house named Tudor House, which was acquired in 1898 by the LCC, in order to create a new public park for this densely populated neighbourhood. The house was demolished, being in a poor state of repair, and the ground was laid out as a garden, with a bandstand, toilets and also a gymnasium for children. It was opened in April 1900. Facing onto the park is the Bromley by Bow Centre, a community arts centre established on the former Congregational Church that was adjacent to the house. The park has been re-landscaped since 1999.

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Brompton Cemetery was built for the West London and Westminster Cemetery Company, founded in 1836, on a site purchased from Lord Kensington and the Equitable Gas Company. The new cemetery opened in 1840, designed by Benjamin Baud; the grounds were laid out by landscape gardener Isaac Finnemore with advice from J C Loudon, Messrs Veitch supplying plants. The full extent of Baud's designs were not carried out but by 1847 the buildings included the Chapel with arcades and catacombs. Baud's design had avenues running north-west and south-east from the entrance on Old Brompton Road and these retain their dominant planting of limes; other trees include scattered mature weeping silver lime, holly, Holm oak, cedar of Lebanon and yew. In 1850 the Metropolitan Interments Act enabled the Board of Health to purchase the cemetery for a fraction of the price asked by the Company. Many notable people are buried here.

A private park open to the public, Brompton Park is a small open space at the south end of the Brompton Park Crescent Estate created in the 1980s. The gated estate was built on the site of the West London Free Hospital, later the Brompton Hospital, which was laid out with internal open spaces. The plane trees in the park and on the estate survive from that time.