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The Friends House was built between 1924-27 as the headquarters for the Religious Society of Friends, an award-winning design by Quaker architect Hubert Lidbetter. The site had previously included private open space of Endsleigh Gardens, and from an early stage the plans for the new building incorporated a garden to the east of the Meeting House. This is enclosed by a low Portland stone wall with railings on the north and south side and is laid out with two square lawns with a central path and roses, shrubs to the north and south, and a magnolia tree alongside Euston Road.

There were Quakers in Winchmore Hill from the 1650s, soon after the formation of the movement, and meetings are known to have taken place here from 1662. The current Friends Meeting House was built in 1790 to replace the original meeting house on the site, which dated from 1688. The burial ground to the west of the Meeting House is on the site of the property's 300 year-old walled garden. The main burial area is behind the building, with simple headstones set in the grass.

First records of a Friends Meeting at Brentford date from 1659, which lapsed when John Woolrich, at whose house the meetings were held, was arrested. In 1706 meetings were held in a barn in Old Brentford but from 1731 there was a movement to set up a new Meeting House. This led to the purchase in 1785 of a small plot of land from Benjamin Angell, a wealthy Quaker. The earliest burials took place in the area to the north of the Meeting House. In 1824 an additional strip of land to the south was given by Sarah Angell for a burial ground and it was used as such from 1855 onwards, remaining open for burials today.

The Friends Meeting House was built in 1954-5, a yellow brick building designed by Hubert Lidbetter. It replaced the C18th Friends Meeting House that had been destroyed by a flying bomb in WWII, the burial ground of which is the walled garden in Furnival Gardens. Separated from the Great West Road by a high brick wall, the Meeting House has an area of trees and shrubs in front of the building and a paved area with perennial planting. Behind the building is an area of grass and shrubs. In Cromwell Lane, running north from the back of the Meeting House are mature trees and numerous daffodils have been planted in the raised bed along the middle of the road, and a strip of undeveloped land at the top of the road that has been grassed over and railed off.

Uxbridge Friends Meeting House is a Georgian brick building with arched windows built in 1817-18, which originally consisted of two rooms divided by a cross passage with sliding shutters. It is surrounded by its small burial ground, which is railed to the road and contains a few gravestones near the Meeting House. This now provides a small garden with grass, conifers and other trees, and is open at certain times to the public. Part of the garden is also used by a nursery that occupies the Meeting House on weekdays. Friends Walk divides the garden from a further area of paving and seating owned by the adjacent Allied Irish Bank.

Friern Village Park is a public park within the grounds of Princess Park Manor, a private residential development on the former site of Middlesex County (Colney Hatch) Lunatic Asylum of 1849-50. The original landscaped grounds included a tree-lined approach to Italianate buildings, parterre-type planting on two forecourts in front of the main block, 8 airing courts between the wings and central spine laid out as formal gardens, with kitchen gardens beyond. As the Asylum expanded over the years, additional facilities included a farm, chapel and cemetery, the latter in use until 1873. By 1929 the estate comprised 165 acres, and in 1937 it became known as Friern Barnet mental hospital. Land was lost to the North Circular Road and assigned to the LCC for development. In 1993 the hospital finally closed down when a large part of the grounds was sold for development and over half the buildings demolished. Even before closure much of the land had already been sold off and sales continued afterwards until the main hospital buildings and surrounding land were bought and converted by Comer Homes to provide 256 'luxury apartments set in 30 acres of mature parkland'. An area was to be reserved for a public park and this opened in 2001. It consists of two separate roughly semi-circular grassy areas containing a variety of trees, situated on either side of the main drive running downhill to the central building. The new park's entrance from the north is through gates on Friern Barnet Road, once the main entrance to the hospital.

Now converted as a residential care home for the elderly, Frognal is an ancient site considered to be one of the most important historical landscapes in the borough, with occupation dating back to the C13th. Parts of Frognal House date back to Tudor times although it is mainly c.1670 with C18th and C20th additions. In 1780 it was inherited by Thomas Townshend, MP, later created Lord Sydney of Chislehurst, after whom Sydney, Australia is named. The property remained in private ownership until 1915, and then became Queen's Hospital, later Queen Mary's Hospital. Features in the grounds include earthwork remains of formal terraced gardens; C17th kitchen garden walls; a turkey oak possibly planted in the C17th; a ha-ha; remains of a yew walk with an C18th specimen; a C19th oak avenue and other mature specimen trees in the Garden Shaw plantation.

Part of Fryent Country Park has the remains of Barn Hill Farm, an C18th landscaped farm that was part of Wembley Park estate. In the late C18th, land owner Richard Page sought the advice of Humphry Repton who was employed at Wembley Park. Remnants of his scheme survive such as the belt of trees running down from the hilltop and crossing Brampton Grove and Basing Hill. The area was saved from development, firstly in 1927 when 50 acres of wood and hilltop were conveyed to Wembley UDC for Barn Hill Open Space. Then, after Fryent Way opened in 1935, Middlesex County Council compulsorily purchased what was largely farmland to keep it public open space.

* on The National Heritage List for England, Parks & Gardens

Fulham Palace was a moated site and an important botanic garden from the C16th. From 701 AD - 1973 the land was owned by the Bishops of London, the Palace, built in the C16th, becoming their official residence in the mid C18th. Now a museum, the Palace has elements of the Tudor, Georgian and Victorian eras. The gardens reflect the C18th landscape design and the walled garden contains remains of an early C19th vinery. Over the centuries parts of the estate were sold or donated for public use, including the land for Bishop’s Park and the Fulham Palace Meadows Allotments, and was eventually reduced to the 13 acre garden surrounding the Palace today. Following WWII the garden fell into decline. After it ceased to be the Bishop's residence Fulham Palace was taken over by LB Hammersmith & Fulham and the garden opened to the public in 1974/6. It was maintained by the Council until 2011, when Fulham Palace Trust was created and restoration of this important garden began.

Fulham Palace Meadows Allotments originated as a gift in 1916 from the Bishop of London, owners of the adjacent Fulham Palace from AD701-1973. There is evidence of human activity here for some 2,000 years, with a Roman settlement on the Meadow between AD43 and 410, after which the land was used by Saxon farmers and from the C8th as grazing land for the Bishop's animals. The granting of land for allotments to the people of Fulham was part of an early Dig for Victory campaign in WWI, following which the Bishop agreed to continue this use. There are now 406 plots run by Fulham Palace Meadows Allotment Association, the President of which was the incumbent Bishop of London until 1973 when occupancy of Fulham Palace ceased and it was sold to Hammersmith & Fulham Council.

Fulham Cemetery, now generally known as Fulham Palace Road Cemetery, was established by Fulham Burial Board in 1865 and is the oldest of the parish's cemeteries. It was designed by architect Sir Arthur Blomfield with an entrance lodge and two chapels, and laid out with a grid of walks. The burial ground was extended in 1874 and 1880 but by 1908 it was becoming full and North Sheen Cemetery was opened to cater for the parish needs. Fulham Old Cemetery is no longer open for burial.

The site was once the mouth of Hammersmith Creek, which had a thriving fishing industry until the early C19th. By 1830 the area had high quality residential property but later became a dense mixture of factories, housing and other uses. In the 1920s Hammersmith Council began to improve the area and the Creek was infilled in 1936. In 1948 it was decided to create a public open space on bomb-damaged land between the river and Great West Road, to be completed for the Festival of Britain. Laid out in 1951, the new riverside park was named after Dr Frederick James Furnivall, scholar and founder in 1896 of what is now the Furnivall Sculling Club. A secluded garden surrounded by a low wall was created on the former site of Hammersmith Friends Meeting House C18th burial ground, which was destroyed by a flying bomb. The north boundary was provided as part of road works in 1956 and the park was extended on the east in 1957.