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The site for the park was acquired in 1900 by Tottenham Council, all but 2 acres of which were former Lammas land. Initially called Down Fields, the recreation ground was laid out and formally opened on 11 May 1907. Its facilities included a bowling green, later used by Tottenham Hale Bowling Club, and near the main entrance was a drinking fountain and flowerbeds, although the emphasis was on sports. By 1935 there was perimeter planting and the athletic ground/running track was in place. The park was used for concert parties and bands as well as sporting activities.

The Downham Estate was built between 1924-38, an extensive LCC estate designed on 'garden city' principles. Named after Lord Downham, Chairman of LCC in 1919-20, the estate had long winding tree-lined roads and incorporated and preserved an existing tract of woodland from Whitefoot Terrace to Bromley Road. Now called Downham Woodland Walk it runs between the houses for over 1.5 km, and much of it is almost certainly ancient woodland, shown on maps of 1805.

The park is on land that was once part of the large Mount Pleasant estate where in 1789 Downhills House was built, which had ornamental gardens on the south and a grove of trees towards the river. Part of Downhills Estate was leased to Broadwater Farm. The estate had numerous private owners, the last of whom sold it to the British Land Company who sold it on to Tottenham UDC in 1902, when the house was demolished. The public park was laid out on the former landscaped grounds although many fields were built over. Downhills Park opened in 1903 but was extended in 1904 with 4 acres purchased from the railway company. Early features included a rockery, Italian Garden, lake, thatched arbour, water-tower, conservatory, bandstand, model railway, keeper's lodge, elaborate stone terraces and fine hornbeam avenue. Although little of this survives, the Italian Gardens are still laid out with formal bedding, and the park has many fine trees. On the west side of the park is the more informal area of Downhills Recreation Ground.

John Walter, Clerk of the Drapers' Company from 1616-56, set up almshouses in Southwark and Newington Butts, including those on the current site, which were built in 1820 when earlier almshouses were relocated. The original almshouses were established by St George's Field in 1650. The new Almshouses accommodated 16 men, women or spinsters, and consisted of a row of 5 houses of 2 storeys, in front of which were ornamental gardens with fuel stores and wash houses to the rear. A plaque in the centre has the words: 'The Drapers almshouses Rebuilt AD1820 William Gibbs, William Pugh Church Wardens Joseph Kesterton of this parish'. The Drapers' Company relocated the residents in c.1973 and the almshouses were sold, but remain as private residencies with a communal front garden.

Drapers' Almshouses in Bruce Grove were built by the Drapers' Company after three East End almshouses were lost when their sites were purchased for the construction of the North London Railway. Accommodation was originally provided for 27 pensioned sailmakers and the rest for poor people from Bow, Bromley and Stepney, but they are now sheltered housing. The almshouses are on three sides of a large rectangle of grass fenced to the road, the layout informal with winding paths and flowering cherry trees, with a long mixed border on the fourth side. Behind the houses are tiny individual gardens and through a gateway is an allotment area.

The Drapers' Company gardens were once extensive. Thomas Cromwell had acquired land here from the 1530s, and probably had walks, arbours, knot and herb gardens. After his fall from grace, the Drapers' Company acquired his property in 1543, converting his mansion as Drapers' Hall and creating a Great Garden for its members. In the early C17th mulberry trees were planted probably following the example of James I. The Hall burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666 and the garden was restored in the early 1670s. Popular in the C17th and C18th, the garden was open to the 'genteel public' in the C19th but by the 1870s much of the original gardens had disappeared as building accelerated in the City. The Drapers' Company let part of the land for houses and a new road, and the garden that remains was formerly the Upper Garden, the north end of which also known as the Lower Garden. The layout is largely that of 1928 with paving, formal raised rose beds, a fountain and trees including black mulberry trees and a Japanese mulberry.

Drayton Green was a small hamlet in the parish of Ealing, with commonland surrounded by a few large properties but otherwise remaining quite rural until the late C19th, when housing increasingly encroached the area's open space. As a result of the 1866 Metropolitan Commons Act, Ealing Local Board was able to purchase various areas of common land for public open space, including 4 acres of former commonland at Drayton Green. By 1932 a large oval running track had been laid out here and a children's playground existed by the 1950s.

The small park was once part of the grounds of Drayton Hall, a historic house that was owned by the De Burgh family from 1786 until 1939. It was purchased by Yiewsley and West Drayton UDC in 1948 and used as council offices with events in the grounds. The Hall later became the headquarters of United Biscuits, who laid out a garden behind the house, and in 2011 it was purchased by Ferrings Pharmaceutical Company. The park contains fine trees.

This area was formerly part of the estate of Clock House, which was built in the late C18th on land taken from Earl Spencer's estate; in 1796 a Jacob Bell lived here. The Clock House estate ceased to exist when it was purchased by the Fulham Railway in c.1888 for the Wimbledon extension of the railway line. The area was then developed for housing between 1895-1905, an estate plan was laid out by the landowners and building lots then acquired and developed by different builders. The focal point is the green space at the junction of Rusholme Road and Holmbush Road. Holmbush Road and the north part of Rusholme Road was built by a family called Parnell, and the houses in Rusholme Road and Dromore Road south and east of the green were built by John Tuckett. The triangular green was provided as public open space by Wandsworth Borough Council, and was opened to the public in 1922, laid out with grass and trees and has 8 mature trees, one lime and seven horse chestnut, which may be a remnant of old hedgerow.

Drury Lane Gardens is a small public garden created in 1877 on the site of a former burial ground of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the first burial ground to be made into a public garden in Westminster following closure as a result of the Burial Acts, in this case due to the intervention of Octavia Hill. The mortuary and lodge survive either side of the entrance, together with C19th gate piers. The raised garden is largely taken up with a playground, sports court and hard landscaping but also has a seating area shaded by a pergola, with shrubberies and bedding displays. A number of tombstones are ranged along the northern boundary.

Small public park probably laid out in the 1980s when the adjacent housing estate of Dells Close was built. However, prior to this it appears to have existed as a playing field, marked as such on the 1960 OS Map. The park today is largely laid out for children's play, and following improvements to its facilities it was relaunched in an event in which local children participated.

Du Cane Court is an impressive Art Deco housing complex built in 1938, at that time the largest purpose-built private accommodation of this type in Europe. There are a range of different flats and maisonettes, and the communal gardens at the front were designed by Seyemon Kusumoto, one of which has a water feature comprising a pond and waterfall. One of the most enduring myths is that the building was used by the Luftwaffe as a visual navigation point during air raids in WWII, which may have led to the associated myth that Hitler had the building in mind for housing his officers in the event of a conquest of or accord with Britain. A Residents Association has been set up to maintain the estate.