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Although laid out relatively recently, College Green was originally part of the lands of Bromley College almshouses and was long used for a nursery. In 1985 Bromley Council demolished the greenhouses here and created this new public open space. The landscape was improved in collaboration with the Friends of Bromley Town Parks & Gardens, including tree clearing and planting using plants recorded in the C17th, recalling the connections of this area with the Bishops of Rochester. Improvements were made to enhance the space in 2015, creating College Green and Slip Pocket Park, which provides a pleasant space close to the busy town centre for commuters and shoppers.

Collier Row was in agricultural use until the 1930s and the name refers to the charcoal burners who lived here when the hills beyond Romford were wooded. Soon after the area began to be developed for housing the local Council acquired land for a public recreation ground and Collier Row Recreation Ground opened in 1935. New facilities were opened in 2006 providing play areas for young children and teenagers. The River Rom runs through the park.

These ornamental gardens were created for the communal use of residents of Collingham Gardens, built in the 1880s as the Gunter family developed their estate lands in this area. The original elaborate entrance gate is still in place, although the railings are modern. The gardens are laid out with lawn, mature trees, flowers and shrub beds and a network of paths.

Collingham Gardens Children's Nursery is a semi-wild children's nursery garden shaded by tall trees, but it was once part of the burial ground of St George the Martyr and a number of gravestones remain in the garden. In 1877 surgeon Thomas Cooke rented a corner of the disused burial ground for his School of Anatomy, which ran successfully until the 1890s but by the 1920s was derelict. In 1935 it was acquired by wealthy philanthropist John Cyril Lees Collingham, after whom the garden is named, and at his behest a garden for 'the welfare of children' was established. The site has been used as a nursery for over 50 years, and is now run as a co-operative pre-school nursery by local parents.

Collingwood Recreation Ground is open grassland with trees along the perimeter. The 1st edition OS Map of 1867 shows the site as a series of fields between Gander Green Lane and Balaam Lane, which later became Collingwood Road. The present boundary of the site to the allotments to the north represents a former field boundary.

Colville Gardens was built as part of the development in the area by Dr Samuel Walker, which he commenced from the 1850s. He was somewhat beset by financial problems, which resulted in delays to building Colville Square, Terrace and Gardens, which took place from 1860. The area later became run down and was eventually rehabilitated in the 1960s. There is a strip of communal landscaping for residents of 'Pinehurst Court', with lawns, mature trees and shrubbery, railed to the road.

Now public gardens, this was formerly a private communal garden for the residents of houses on Colville Square. It was part of a development by Dr Samuel Walker that commenced in the 1850s but was not completed until the 1860s. During the C20th the area became increasingly rundown and was eventually rehabilitated in the 1960s. The garden has shrubs and floral planting at the northern end with a circular bed around an ornamental stone urn, and a small play area for younger children.

Common Growth is a small community garden on Sandbourne Road, adjacent to New Cross Gate Cutting, a nature reserve that runs alongside the East London railway line. The community garden was established in 2010 by Bold Vision, a local charity that oversees the nearby Hill Station Community Café. The site was formerly wasteland that was used by local residents to access a nearby car park. On the northern side of the site are a pair of gardening sheds close to a Rowan tree, with shrubs and flowerbeds in the opposite half of the garden.

Compton Terrace Garden consists of two elongated enclosures that were originally for the private use of residents of the Terrace. The land was part of the Marquess of Northampton's considerable estate, the name Compton deriving from the C17th owners. Although not completed until 1831, Compton Terrace was planned in 1805 as a row of villas each side of the Union Chapel of 1806. By 1823 9 houses had been built north of the chapel and the lessees agreed to make a private road with a communal garden in front. Maintenance was later transferred to Islington Borough Council and the gardens opened as a public amenity. In 1944 a German bomb destroyed or badly damaged 12 of the 19 houses north of the Chapel and in the 1960s Highbury Roundabout was built over the area devastated by the bomb.

To the west of Avery Hill Park and behind Holy Trinity Church and adjacent housing, is a small area of public open space that contains remmants of the medieval brick Conduit Head, which once housed a weir arrangement controlling the supply of water to the moat at Eltham Palace, later used to provide water to the palace itself. The small site consists of open amenity grass, with some perimeter trees.

A farmhouse was recorded here from the early C17th. The 1841 Tithe Map shows the land in the ownership of the Lord of the Manor, the Revd Sir Charles Farnaby. In 1935 the farm was sold for development, the farmhouse acquired by the church to be used as a rectory. Coney Hall Recreation Ground is an area of grass sloping to the north-east, almost completely surrounded by housing. The park is largely given over for sports, with some flower and shrub beds. A wide tarmac path, running north-east/south-west through the centre of the park, connects Layhams Road with Church Drive. It is part of the London Loop and has a meridian marker.

Connaught Recreation Ground is a small park with rose beds and playgrounds in the north, fronted by railings onto Uxbridge Road. It was laid out by the mid-1930s as housing was increasingly developed here, prior to which it is shown on OS maps as a field and there were nurseries in the area into the C20th. A drinking fountain and path layout are shown in 1935 with a park lodge and lavotories in place by 1965, and allotment gardens to the south-east of the park.