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This is a late C20th landscape that is an integral part of a comprehensive residential development on the former Erith marshes. One of three major open spaces in Thamesmead, Crossway Park is a large grass area around the Crossway Canal, which was dammed with a weir to form a small lake. Tree planting, mounding and the lake make this an attractive area. The lake is part of an elaborate flood prevention system of lakes and canals that connects Crossway Park with Southmere Park and Birchmere. The site is part of the Green Chain.

Crouch Hill Park is a new community park that opened in late 2012, but part of the site was once Crouch Hill Recreation Centre and its gardens, which existed from the 1920s. After it closed in 2004 it subsequently became derelict. Redevelopment of the site began in April 2011 and in addition to the public park, the site includes new buildings of Ashmount Primary School, CAPE Play and Youth Project and Bowlers Community Nursery, as well as improvements to the existing multi-use games area.

Purley Way West is on the edge of a large open area that was the site of Croydon Airport; some of the former taxiing area remains visible. The first Croydon Aerodrome was formed from two earlier airfields, and has now largely been built over. A second complex was built to the east in 1926 and Croydon Airport was opened on 2 May 1928. It served as London's main civic international airport but finally closed in 1959. A number of the airport buildings remain to the north of Purley Way West and the airport land is now parkland, playing fields and the Roundshaw Estate in Sutton. In 1991 a memorial to the Battle of Britain was erected next to Purley Way.

In 1890 the Local Board purchased a 17-hectare meadow in Croydon Road next to the Cottage Hospital for a recreation ground. Croydon Road Recreation Ground was opened in 1891 and most of its original features are still intact, such as the ornamental entrance gates, lodge and railed bandstand, now listed. The bandstand is now known as the Bowie Bandstand to commemorate the influential musician David Bowie's associations with not only Beckenham but with the bandstand itself. Croydon Road Recreation Ground provided facilities for cricket, bowls and other sports that were gaining in popularity. Early sporting activities included an annual cricket match held between the coachmen and gardeners of the local gentry, and bowls commenced as early as 1902.

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Crystal Palace Park was pleasure grounds designed as a setting for the Crystal Palace, which had been built for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851 and was moved at the close of the exhibition to Sydenham Hill in 1852. The park was laid out with terraces, Italian Garden, Great Maze, English Garden, gravel walks, statues and elaborate fountains fed by 3 lakes. In the south of the park an early attraction were the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, a collection of models of prehistoric creatures. The Palace and Park were opened by Queen Victoria on 10 June 1854, but the Palace later burnt down in November 1936. Some of the trees from the original planting survive and the park has a number of lakes, initially part of the elaborate waterworks scheme.

Cuckoo Avenue is an avenue of horse chestnuts planted as the approach to the Central London District Schools, built in 1856/7 on the north-east part of the once extensive Hanwell Park estate, whose remaining land and mansion were sold off from 1884. The school housed up to 1,000 disadvantaged children; Charlie Chaplin was once a pupil. By 1900 it covered 140 acres, with its own well, sewage and gas works, supplied with produce farmed on the land. It closed in 1933 and most buildings were demolished apart from the central block, later converted into Hanwell Community Centre. The LCC Cuckoo Estate was built in 1933-39 on former school land with houses along Cuckoo Avenue, which became a double carriageway. Land behind the Community Centre became Cuckoo Park providing recreational facilities for the estate, with a small rest garden in front of the building that was restored in 1991.

Cuddington Cemetery and St Philip's Churchyard are divided by a hedge and trees; the old churchyard now closed to burial. Accessible from Lindsay Road, Cuddington Cemetery was laid out c.1901, and opened in 1902, the earliest grave also of this date. Formally laid out in a rectangular grid, the cemetery has a WWI war memorial and the entrance is lined with trees including an occasional yew.. To the west lies the former churchyard of St Philip's Church, which was built in 1872-73 and demolished in 1972. This part of the site is overgrown and remains untended.

The club house of Cuddington Golf Course was formerly the late C19th Gilhams Lodge. On one side of the building is a raised terrace, which was possibly contemporary with the house and is all that remains of the former garden.

Cuddington Recreation Ground dates from c.1930 and the bowling green is surrounded by railings of the same fretted ornamental type as found at Rosehill Park West and Quarry Park. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as part of open land and fields to the south of Ruffet Wood and Big Wood. The park is on slightly undulating land, cut through by the Beverley Brook with a heavily wooded belt of willows and oaks near the banks, and has open grassland with mature and young trees both around the perimeter and in discrete clumps.

Cudham is an old settlement mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and the parish church may date from the C10th. The fields to the east of the church were used as a sports ground by the early 1930s, crossed by various footpaths. The recreation ground had a cricket pavilion and by the 1960s there were tennis courts. On adjacent land to the east was the Angas Convalescent Home for Sailors, which had opened in 1918 as a branch of the Seamen's Hospital Society Dreadnought Hospital.

Culpeper Community Garden is named after the C17th herbalist Nicholas Culpeper. It has been in existence since the 1980s and is situated adjacent to Culpeper Park, a small public park. The idea for the community garden arose in 1982 when Anthea Douglas, who was then teaching disadvantaged children, realised they needed a proper garden facility. She secured a grant from Islington Council before seeking out a suitable patch of derelict ground. The site she discovered was being considered for future development but as this was not scheduled to begin for some 10 years, it was agreed she could use it in the interim and it has been going ever since. Run on organic lines, the garden comprises a lawn, ponds, rose pergolas, ornamental beds, vegetable plots, seating and a wildlife area, with a greenhouse, small resource centre and tea hut for members. There are over 50 plots including raised beds for disabled gardeners, which provide small gardens for community groups, children, and for people living nearby without gardens. Tending the garden is a communal effort by garden members and volunteers.

Culverley Road and surrounding streets were laid out as part of an Edwardian suburban development by the Forster family on their Sangley Farm Estate, which was built piecemeal between 1902-1920s. Prior to this the area was rural, with a few fine villas along Bromley Road, the main route from London to Kent. Housing development had accelerated here as both rail and horse tram networks improved in the late C19th. With its grid layout of wide tree-lined streets and spacious houses with substantial back gardens the suburb preserved a semi-rural character. Culverley Green was a provided as a triangular area of public open space and has grass, trees and shrubs.