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Chingford Green, unlike other former rural hamlets in the area, retains some sense of its earlier atmosphere. In 1844 the parish church of St Peter and St Paul was built on the Green, and a few C18th and C19th buildings still overlook the green. The area remained rural until housing development took place largely as a result of the arrival of the railway in the late C19th and by the 1920s suburban housing replaced Chingford's fields.

Chingford Mount Cemetery was set up by the non-conformist Abney Park Cemetery Company in 1884 when its cemetery in Hackney had become congested. The site purchased was Caroline's Mount or the Mount Caroline Estate, so-called after the wife of the land owner. In 1975 new owners wished to build housing on part of the unused land but this proposal was opposed and the cemetery subsequently became neglected and its chapel and lodges vandalised. In 1977 it was acquired by LB Waltham Forest. The gates at the western main entrance survive from the C19th layout, with a short avenue lined by mature London plane trees, and the cemetery is densely planted with mature trees.

This small public garden, comprising bedding plants and areas of clipped grass bordered by low fencing, provides a landscaped setting for the Chingford War Memorial. The granite memorial in the form of a Celtic cross on a tapered shaft stands in a paved area within the garden, set on an octagonal paved base. It was designed by W A Lewis and commissioned by public subscription in order to commemorate the 242 local men who fell in WWI. Chingford War Memorial was unveiled on 24 September 1921 by Lord Lambourne and the Bishop of Chelmsford. The memorial was later inscribed to commemorate those who lost their lives in 1939-1945 as well as in later conflicts, both military and civilian personnel. The lettering on the memorial and the landscaping were restored in 2019.

The Commons comprise grassland, heath, ponds and woodland that were once grazing land for Chislehurst and St Paul's Cray. In the mid-C19th encroachment threatened the commonland in order to extract gravel and develop the land for housing, which was opposed by a group of local residents. Their successful challenge led to the Metropolitan Commons (Chislehurst and St Paul's Cray) Supplemental Act passed in 1888, which set up a voluntary Board of Conservators to protect and preserve the land for the benefit of the community. Woodland now covers much of the former scrub and grassland although ancient acid grassland remains in parts. Former gravel pits form the 2 largest ponds now found on the commons and there is also a well-preserved cockpit. Numerous paths cross the commons and a number of recreational facilities are located here, such as the West Kent Cricket Club Ground. The Imperial Memorial is found adjacent to Prince Imperial Road.

The site comprises Chislehurst and Walden Recreation Grounds and Whyte's Woodland. The Chislehurst Tithe Map of 1844 shows the site of Chislehurst Recreation Ground as a field owned by Lord Sydney, Lord of Chislehurst Manor and a principal landowner at the time. At some time between 1908 and 1928 the land was acquired by Chislehurst and Sidcup UDC for use as a recreation ground. Walden Recreation Ground (to the north?) was named after Viscount Walden, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale who was born in Edinburgh but came to live in the area. In 1938 Miss Agnes Whyte conveyed by way of a gift the adjacent wooded area to the UDC, now known as Whyte's Woodland after its donor. This and the extension to the Recreation Ground opened in 1948.

Chislehurst Cemetery, the largest of Bromley's municipal cemeteries, opened in 1912. The need for a new burial ground was noted from 1905 when the parish churchyard of St Nicholas was becoming full. The land, formerly a field, was purchased from Robert Marsham-Townshend, the Lord of the Manor of Chislehurst and Scadbury. A design competition was held for the cemetery buildings, won by Curtis Green, architect of the Dorchester Hotel. Milner, Son and White were appointed landscape gardeners in October 1910 to design the roads, paths, layout and planting. The cemetery layout has changed little, although by 1960 it had been extended to the north by annexing part of Hoblands Woods.

Chiswick Common was part of the Bishop of London's Manor of Fulham and was rural until the mid C19th with large estates, farms and market gardens. Development took place after the railway arrived in the area in 1849, with Turnham Green Station opening in 1869. Bounded on its north side by the railway embankment, Chiswick Back Common is mainly grass, criss-crossed by paths, with sports facilities including tennis courts. Around the edges are mature trees, with beech hedging near the playground. At the east apex is a drinking fountain provided by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association in 1902.

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Chiswick House and its grounds were created by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, one of the earliest promoters of Palladianism in England. His classical villa was built in the late 1720s next to Old Chiswick House, the Jacobean house he had inherited as part of the estate in Chiswick purchased by his grandfather in 1682. Burlington transformed the earlier layout of pleasure and productive gardens in various phases, working with William Kent to create formal gardens that evoked the ideals of ancient Rome. In 1753 the estate passed by marriage to the Dukes of Devonshire, and in 1788 the fifth Duke demolished Old Chiswick House and enlarged the villa. Both the fifth and sixth Dukes remodelled Burlington’s gardens. From the 1860s onwards the Devonshires let the house and in 1929 the reduced estate was sold to Middlesex County Council. In 1948, ownership of the house passed to the Ministry of Works, which embarked on a restoration campaign aimed at returning the villa to its original size and design and the gardens to their original layout. The house and the gardens are now under the stewardship of an independent trust, Chiswick House and Gardens Trust who work with LB Hounslow and English Heritage Trust to preserve this important heritage site.

Chiswick New Cemetery was laid out on former water meadows and is between the busy Great Chertsey Road and the railway line. The cemetery was opened in 1933; a further 6 acres were added to the west in 1989 on land formerly used for allotments. The rather imposing brick and Portland stone chapel was built in 1930s 'Great West Road style' (Meller) at a cost of £5,000; it is unconsecrated to enable interdenominational services. The entrance on the corner of Staveley Road and Great Chertsey Road has ornamental gates and a small brick shelter. There are a large number of Russians and Poles buried here, a community that has lived in this area for many years.

Chiswick Square is a paved square overlooked by houses of 1680 on two sides, which form a forecourt to Boston House, which was probably built for Henry d'Auverquerque, Viscount Boston, Earl of Grantham. There is a legend that it was haunted by the ghost of Lady Boston, murdered by her husband .The house was refronted in c.1740, and it became a boarding school in the C19th. It was divided into 4 dwellings in the 1980s when new houses were built in its grounds. The square is a simple paved area, the fourth side now a busy main road. Facing No. 7 Chiswick Square was the site of Chiswick Polish Company, Cherry Blossom Boot Polish, which was rebuilt as Flemming House in 1983-5.

Christ Church was built in 1845, a flint and stone building with two large gables facing the road and a picturesque wooden bell-turret. The Pennefather Hall next to the church dates from 1907 and is named after the first vicar. The churchyard is no longer used for burials and the church is now surrounded by garden, with grass, shrubberies and a number of trees including a Cedar, with a War Memorial obelisk to one side commemorating 'Old Scholars of the Boys School Christ Church Barnet who died in the South African Campaign of 1899-1902'.

Remnant of the churchyard of Christ Church Forest Hill, built in 1852-4 as the parish church of Forest Hill, although its tower with tall spire was not erected until 1885. The church closed in 1988 due to structural problems and the building was redeveloped as flats, although a small chapel was created at the east end of the church and is used for service, known as The Chapel on the Hill. Much of the former churchyard was converted for residents' gardens, a large area for car parking and is not publicly accessible. Some of the tombs and gravestones in the churchyard remain in areas now in private ownership. A small garden fronting the entrance to the Chapel on the Hill has been laid out and is partially accessible to the public. The churchyard had some fine tombs and gravestones, including a red granite obelisk marking the family grave of George and Mary Baxter. By the west wall was a memorial in the form of a pinnacle to members of the Tetley family of tea fame, dated 1872, and to the right of the main entrance was the gravestone to the Hennell family.