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Dumbarton Court was built in 1936-39 for a property developer by W Vernon Coupland; the lease was purchased by Lambeth Borough Council in 1959. The planting consists of a small grassed area with trees and seating in front of block of flats to Brixton Hill.

Duncan Terrace Gardens comprise a series of linear gardens between Duncan Terrace and Colebrooke Row, which were built either side of the New River, the man-made water conduit constructed in 1609-13 to supply London's growing population. The New River here was enclosed in underground pipes in 1861 as the area was developed. The southernmost garden opened in 1893, laid out by the MPGA for Islington Borough Council who had acquired the land in 1892. The garden areas to the north remained in the ownership of the Metropolitan Water Board, although part were let for public gardens. When the New River ceased to flow below Stoke Newington in c.1946, the pipes were dug up and ownership of the gardens transferred to Islington Council in 1951. They were then re-landscaped and now form an important link in the series of green spaces along the former course of the New River.

Dundonald Road Recreation Ground was laid out in 1893. The park is largely open grassland and sports fields, with a rose garden around a decorative well near the entrance, facing the bowling green. It has perimeter paths and trees and is surrounded by modern railings.

Duppas Hill was the first public recreation ground in Croydon, but the site had a very long history of use for sporting events. Tournaments were held here until 1286, when Lord William de Warenne was treacherously killed. Croydon Board of Health purchased the land from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1865. There was evidently a pavilion here by 1890 and the park had paths and perimeter trees. By 1932 a bandstand, toilets and drinking fountain had been added although now only the Victorian drinking fountain survives.

Much of the area remained farmland until early-mid C19th development although wealthy merchants had began to build villas here in the C18th. The town houses of Durand Gardens, originally called The Grove, were built from 1840 onwards with a central garden laid out for use by the residents. The garden's irregular shape is possibly due to it being the site of a plague pit. Although it was once laid out as an ornamental garden it became neglected. In the 1980s the Durand Gardens Residents Association purchased the site, and it is now maintained as a woodland garden.

Durants Park is named after Durrants, a sub-manor of the Enfield Estate dating from the C13th. From the early C15th Durants was owned by the influential Wroth family and James I reputedly visited frequently. In the C18th Sir Thomas and Lady Stringer lived here, whose son William married a daughter of the infamous Judge Jeffreys. Fortifications on an outbuilding were said to have been erected for his protection. In 1910 this and the remains of the moated manor house, Durants Arbour, were demolished. In 1903 Enfield UDC had bought c.14 hectares of estate land for a public park. The park initially had a bandstand and drinking fountain, but by the 1930s facilities for tennis, bowling and putting, and an athletics track were provided.

Durham Hill is a hilly park on former agricultural land that was preserved as public open space when the extensive Downham Estate was built in 1924-38. In the 1920s the area was known as Seven Fields and was a popular place for weekend outings. Durham Hill was the highest point in the centre of the estate and fields to north-west and south-west. Initially called Downham Fields, the public park was renamed Durham Hill in the 1990s, as it was locally known and referred to on old maps. From the park there are fine views across to Beckenham Place Park, Crystal Palace ridge, Croydon and beyond. A new Leisure Centre and outdoor sports courts were built adjacent to the park in 2006. 

Durnsford Park was created in the early C20th and is now part of the Wandle Valley National Park. It is open grassland with a perimeter path; trees include mature willow in the east. It is surrounded by housing and a school, and has clumps of shrubs and new tree planting. In the 1990s the existing wetland next to the railway was extended into Durnsford Recreation Ground itself. A hedgerow was planted set into the park along the northern edge in 2012 to mark Queen Elizabeth II diamond jubilee in 2012.

Historically there was a bowling green and tennis courts.  A sizeable playground with fake boulders exists now.  There is also a separate smaller triangular shaped playground leased to the adjacent school during school hours and surrounded by high fencing. Brooklands Avenue Allotments lie adjacent to the park in the North East corner near the woodland and pond - this area of land was formally part of the recreation ground.

Eagle House is an early C17th stucco-fronted, triple gabled Jacobean property on four storeys. It has a large landscaped forecourt with perimeter shrubs and 4 mature trees. Its remaining rear garden, now within a single walled area with lawn, paths, shrub beds and trees, was formerly much larger but an extensive area was sold in 1992 for housing development. At that time it was the only known archaeologically investigated walled garden from the Jacobean period. A plaque at the entrance gates refers to the origins of the house and its most notable owners between 1613 and 1887. On the front of the house itself another plaque refers to German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer who attended school here in 1803.

Long a popular place of public resort, Eaglesfield at the summit of Shooters Hill was bought by Woolwich MBC and opened as Eaglesfield Park in 1908. The name may derive from the coat of arms of C18th landowner John Lidgebird, which had two eagles, or because the summit of Shooters Hill was known as a roost for eagles in medieval times. The park is in two parts, divided by the road, the eastern part an informal grassed area and the western part landscaped with a railed children's playground on the site of a former ornamental pond known as the Lily Pond.

Ealing was largely agricultural until the mid-C19th with villages clustered along Uxbridge Road and from Norman times commoners had rights to graze cattle and fowl on Ealing Common. By the 1840s much of the other common land in the region had been enclosed. In 1878, as a result of the 1866 Metropolitan Commons Act, Ealing Local Board purchased c.47 acres of Ealing Common from the landowner, the Bishop of London. Horse chestnuts were planted on the boundaries and white metal posts and rails were installed in 1887, many of which remain. In 1904 the road across the Common was widened and a new footpath created. During WWII the common was dug up for allotments and there were underground air raid shelters beneath the north-west corner. The common was used for grazing and donkey rides into the C20th.

Ealing was a large village by the late C18th, having become a popular rural retreat for the wealthy during the C17th, although few of their houses survive apart from Pitzhanger Manor, built by Sir John Soane and now restored. An open green space crossed by paths with a number of mature trees, the commonland of Ealing Green was the site of the 3-day Ealing Fair each June until 1880. It was acquired by Ealing Local Board in 1878, along with other common land in the parish. In 1863, the year the Local Board was set up, Ealing Green was the venue for celebrations for the Prince of Wales's marriage to Princess Alexandra and in 1902 the new Ealing Council approved the planting of a tree to commemorate the Coronation and the first Mayoral Year. Ealing War Memorial faces the Green, dedicated in 1921.