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Connaught Square was built between 1821-30 as part of S P Cockerell's plan for Tyburnia when the land within the extensive estate owned by the Bishops of London began to be developed in the early C19th. According to the Report of the Royal Commission on London Squares the private communal garden was laid out in 1809. In 1928 it was described as an 'oblong area surrounded by a sparse hedge and attractively laid out with well-kept lawn and some fine trees'. Today the garden is surrounded by privet hedge and a wire mesh fence; a perimeter walk follows its oval shape and its mature London plane trees dominate the square.

Conolly Dell was formerly part of the grounds of The Lawn, the home and private asylum of Dr John Conolly after his retirement as Superintendent of Hanwell Asylum where he worked from 1839-44, He pioneered humane treatment and non-restraint of the mentally ill. Part of the grounds of The Lawn were given as public open space in 1911, named in his memory, with a memorial surmounted by a winged figure. The sloping garden has a series of ponds, rockery garden and fine trees.

Grounds of the Maria Assumpta Centre, built on the site of two former bishops' palaces, where the earliest plan of a garden dates from 1766. In 1859 the Sisters of the Assumption were invited by Cardinal Wiseman to open a house of Prayer at Kensington Square. They established a girls boarding school there in 1865, adding the Elementary School in 1870 and the Chapel in 1870/1. Other buildings were added over the years with different functions including a domestic training centre for young women, the first Montessori school, a primary school and a teacher training college. In 1978 the Maria Assumpta Centre was formed, providing educational and pastoral facilities. The garden has a variety of trees including mulberry, plane and fruit trees, and a Lourdes-style grotto.

The golf course was part of the estate of Coombe House, which the 1st Duke of Cambridge purchased in 1837, enlarging his estate for a shooting park by the purchase of commonland on Coombe Hill. In the early C20th two golf courses were laid out, Coombe Wood Golf Course in 1904 and Coombe Hill Golf Course in 1910. The latter was laid out by J. F Abercromby and the new course opened on 31 May 1911. Its notable members included royalty, politicians and later showbiz celebrities. The Coombe estate was broken up after the death in 1933 of Sir Augustus Fitzgeorge, son of the 2nd Duke of Cambridge, partly for housing development, but partly remaining open land. The golf courses were saved as a result of Malden and Coombe UDC purchasing the land in 1934.

The site was part of the large Coombe estate, including woods and commonland, privately owned until the mid C20th. Croydon Corporation then purchased Coombe Wood and Coombe Wood House, and 14 acres of woodland and ornamentatl garden were opened to the public in 1948. The gardens were laid out as a series of 'garden rooms', with a rock garden by an existing pond, and a terrace garden that was once a Fernery. Over the years the gardens have evolved, to include a rose garden, mixed borders and a winter garden of heathers, conifers and shrubs. Coombe Wood House, built in 1898, had a number of public uses, including a convalescent home for Croydon Hospital, a Children's Home, and is now a restaurant. The stableyard, built in a gravel pit and hidden from view of the house, is now the park café.

The golf course was part of the estate of Coombe House, which the 1st Duke of Cambridge purchased in 1837, enlarging his estate for a shooting park by the purchase of commonland on Coombe Hill. Coombe Wood Golf Course was laid out in 1904 by the 2nd Duke of Cambridge and his sons, the Fitzgeorges. Originally a 9-hole course, but extended in 1922, it continues to straddle George Road. The Coombe estate was broken up after the death in 1933 of Sir Augustus Fitzgeorge, partly for housing development, but partly remaining open land. The golf course was saved as a result of Malden and Coombe UDC purchasing the land in 1934.

Coppett's Wood was once part of an extensive area of woodland owned by the Bishop of London, which later became known as Finchley Common. The name comes from 'Coppits Farm', created when an area of woodland was cleared in the C16th. The common was enclosed in 1811. In the C19th, as the area was developing, a sewage works was constructed next to Coppett's Wood on the area now called Scrublands. In 1900 the local council had purchased the wood, installing a sludge digester there. The wood was used for military training and gas mask testing in WWII. The sewage works closed in 1963 and the sludge digester was demolished in 1988; Coppett's Wood Conservationists were formed in 1983 and in 1997 the site was designated a Local Nature Reserve.

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This is on part of the site of the Foundling Hospital established by Captain Thomas Coram in 1739 as a home for destitute and abandoned children. 56 acres in Lamb's Conduit Fields were purchased and developed as the Foundling Estate to provide ground rents to support the Hospital but also retain the open situation. In 1926 when the Hospital sold up and moved out of London, the main buildings were demolished apart from its single-storey colonnaded forecourt buildings. Following a public campaign to save the site, it was purchased for London's first public children's playground. It opened as Coram's Fields in 1936 with the Memorial Pavilion in the centre commemorating Harold Vyvyan and Vere Harmsworth. The basic layout of the gardens is similar to that of the C18th.

Corner Green was one of a number of private housing schemes by Span Developments Ltd on the Cator Estate in Blackheath, whose ethos was to set sensitively planned and designed housing units within well-considered landscaping. Here the scheme comprises an open layout of 23 flats and weather-boarded houses set around a green. Maintenance of communal garden areas was initially undertaken by the residents' association with Span as ground landlord, as nearly all Span schemes were originally leasehold properties.

Cornwall Gardens is an elongated garden square with three private communal garden enclosures. It was developed by Thomas and John Broadwood, whose family owned the land, and became famous as piano makers. The gardens have magnificent plane trees dating from the 1870s and are overlooked by Italianate terraces probably designed by the Broadwood estate surveyor Thomas Cundy III. The central garden has the original arched cast-iron entrance gates but the perimeter railings were removed during WWII, and the gardens are bounded by privet hedges.

Coronation Gardens were laid out on land originally purchased as the site for the new Romford parish church in 1844. In 1849 the church was rebuilt on an alternative site in Market Place and only the parish burial ground with a chapel were built here. The cemetery was full by 1871. In 1953 the Council and Church authorities re-landscaped the area as public gardens commemorating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The base of the demolished chapel was initially planted as a raised rose bed but in 1970 the Romford War Memorial was re-erected here when the new Ring Road necessitated its relocation. To the rear of the garden are C19th gravestones that were cleared when the garden was laid out.