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Eastbrookend Country Park opened in 1995, created on an area of derelict land previously used for mineral extraction. It contained much inert landfill and was capped with clay, sand, gravel and topsoil in order to create the country park. As much of the original vegetation as possible was retained in order to sustain wildlife. Bisected by Dagenham Road, it lies in part of the Green Belt between LB Barking & Dagenham and LB Havering, and provides an important recreational resource for East London. There are 4 lakes, and the internal path system was designed by Land Use Consultants. In 1997 the Millennium Centre was built, its design demonstrating best practice in environmental construction. It provides an environmentally friendly visitor centre as well as the headquarters for the Park Ranger Service.

Eastbury is an Elizabethan Manor House built as a country residence for a wealthy merchant. The Manor dates back to at least the C14th when it belonged to Barking Abbey. From the early C18th onwards the estate was divided and the house gradually became dilapidated, occupied by a succession of tenant farmers. In 1913/14 the estate was broken up for building development. The house and immediate grounds, now the focus of a residential square built in the 1920s, was purchased by the National Trust in 1918 and later leased to Barking Borough Council. In the C18th the gardens comprised a west walled garden and two small plots to north and west of the house, both probably once enclosed, and an orchard to the south. The garden to the east is enclosed by C18th and C19th brick walls. Many of the original features have been restored, including the walled garden, in which 'bee-boles' can be seen in the walls.

This is the gardens and small part of the former grounds of Eastcote House, the home of the Hawtrey family from 1532. Built on the site of an older house, Eastcote House stood close to the junction of Eastcote High Road and Field End. In the 1930s much of the estate was sold for development but the grounds were purchased by Ruislip-Norwood UDC in 1938 as public open space. The house was initially used for communal activities but demolished as unsafe in 1964. Within the grounds are the old Coach house, C17th walled garden, C18th dovecote and a ha-ha. There are many fine mature trees and more recent garden features include a herb garden planted for Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee in 1977, orchard, rockery and wildflower meadow.

Eastcote Lane Cemetery was established by Roxeth Burial Board and opened in 1922. It later transferred to Harrow UDC when the Burial Board disbanded. Now surrounded by suburban housing, the small cemetery has modest headstones set among the grass with trees predominantly along the Eastcote Lane boundary. At the entrance are rustic wooden gates and a picturesque red brick lodge with small turret. Around the lodge a number of palm trees and conifers have been planted. A central tarmac path runs from the entrance, crossed partway along its length by another path, the circular junction surrounded by 4 trees.

Eastcote War Memorial Garden was laid out in 1929 on the former site of Field End Farm pond, when the village war memorial was moved from its location at the busy junction of Field End Road and Bridle Road. The memorial takes the form of a stone cross and has bronze plaques with the names of those who died in WWI and WWII. The public garden, which has the original yew hedge to the road, has trees including two mature Common Ash trees, shrubs, lawn and ornamental bedding, is the location for Eastcote's well-attended Remembrance Day service, which in 2017 saw a gathering of over 1,100 people with 200 children presenting crosses.

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Eaton Square was laid out as part of a largely intact planned development of houses and gardens on the Grosvenor Estate. The private gardens of Eaton Square consist of six enclosures of comparable character. All railed, they have shrubbery around peripheral paths and lawns containing beds. The square has numerous major trees, dominated by London planes many dating from the original planting, together with smaller, ornamental varieties. Former residents of Eaton Square include Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at No.37 and actress Vivien Leigh at No.54.

Ebury Square was laid out in 1820 on a former nursery garden that had earlier been the site of Ebury or Eabery Farm, part of the estate of Elizabeth I, later owned by the Grosvenor family. The central garden, on the site of the homestead of the Saxon farm, has been open to the public since 1884. The surrounding terraced houses were partially destroyed in 1860, the remaining fabric subsequently badly bombed, so none of the original houses survive. Recently restored, the garden comprises a lawn crossed by paths, perimeter shrubs, bedding displays and mature London plane and golden acacia trees. In the centre is a flowerbed and cast iron fountain.

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Much of the Pimlico area was used for market gardening from the early C17th, known as the Neat House gardens after the nearby sub-manor of Neat. Owned by the Grosvenor family from 1677 it remained in use for market gardening until the 1820s when Thomas Cubitt leased the land for development. Eccleston Square was laid out in 1835, so-called from the village of Eccleston, part of the Duke of Westminster's lands in Cheshire. The railed rectangular garden, which was provided for residents of the square, is enclosed by dense shrubbery and mature trees including London plane, surrounding a peripheral path and lesser paths dividing the central lawn. It has been refurbished by local residents since 1984 and contains specialist collections including the National Collection of Ceanothus, and numerous unusual plants flourish here.

Eckington Gardens was the name of a residential street in an area that suffered bomb damage in WWII and later declared as unfit and in an uninhabitable state by LB Lewisham in the 1970s. Site clearance was undertaken, with part laid out for a park. Eckington Gardens opened in 1981, originally called Eckington Gardens Park.

Edgwarebury Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery that opened in 1968 and is reserved for burials of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation; Reform Synagogues of Great Britain; and the Union of Liberal & Progresive Synagogues. The cemetery has chapel and a grid of paths, and remains on the edge of the built-up area, meeting the countryside.

The land for the park was purchased in two parts in 1929 and 1932 by Hendon Rural District Council and Middlesex County Council, and it opened in 1932. The site was formerly within the Manor of Earlsbury and once owned by All Saints College, Oxford. Evidence of the older landscape of fields and woodland remains, in addition to more recent planting of trees and formal and informal garden areas. A rose garden was created in 1952, refurbished in c.2006. There are extensive sports facilities.

The gardens were created in memory of the children's author and poet E. Nesbit (1858-1924) who from the age of 17 had lived with her family in various houses in south east London, including Lewisham, Grove Park and Lee. Edith Nesbit Gardens has undulating grass, shrubberies, trees, tarmac paths and a playground.