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Ashburton Wood is located on the former site of Ashburton Secondary Modern School. The first school on the site was Russell Road Board School for Boys, Girls and Infants, which opened in 1893. At that time land to the north of the site was open land/Allotment Gardens, and some residential streets laid out. The school later became Ashburton Secondary Modern School, which closed in 1984, following which the buildings were demolished and the site cleared. It was subsequently planted as woodland to provide publicly accessible open space and nature trail, with paths running through it and seating provided. London plane trees planted along the school boundary with Freemasons Road and Russell Road remain today.

The gardens, which lie between the two red brick mansion blocks that comprise Ashley Gardens, provide a welcome relief from the towering striped buildings of the area. The long rectangular strip, well planted with trees, shrubs and ivies, is visible from Thirleby Road through the railings and is kept in excellent condition. Ashley Gardens and Morpeth Terrace are some of the earliest purpose-built blocks of flats in London.

Maida Vale is renowned for its mansion blocks, lining the broad avenues and bringing a European flavour to the area. Among the first, Ashworth Mansions was built in 1899-1900, two red-brick blocks in Queen Anne Revival style overlooking the communal garden provided for the residents. Planting consists of mature trees, shrubs and perennials, herbaceous borders and beds, set in lawns. The road frontages on Elgin Avenue and Grantully Road also have landscaped areas.

Aspen Gardens is a post-war housing development of 1948 with a communal garden for its residents. The garden appears to be partly a community effort and has some mature trees, with planting by residents in beds by the flats. There is a central area surrounded by wire fencing with flower beds and a variety of containers, and several benches are provided.

Athelstan Recreation Ground is an interwar park laid out on former fields as the area south of Kingston town centre was being developed from the early C20th. Its name recalls the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan, who was crowned at Kingston in 925 AD. The town gets its name for once being the residence of Surrey under-kings, as well as of King John, and reputedly 7 Saxon kings were crowned here although this number is disputed.

Planning permission for development of Athlone House and its grounds, to be called Kenwood Place (in progress)

Much of the land here was once part of the extensive grounds of Highbury House, a late C18th villa set in parkland. From the 1830s the estate was gradually built over as Islington changed from a rural to suburban area. Aubert Court, named after an owner of Highbury House, is on part of the former grounds of Highbury College of Dissenters, a theological institution founded in 1783 in Mile End but which opened here in 1826. In 1946-53 Aubert Court was built on part of the former college grounds as council housing for Islington Borough Council,

With the adjacent Wood Green Common, Avenue Gardens is part of a chain of green spaces running north and linking to Nightingale Gardens and Trinity Gardens. An irregularly shaped open area between C19th terraces, it was laid out as public gardens between 1864-94 on former rural open space with serpentine paths, shrubberies, trees and some formal beds. The original path layout remains almost intact today.

Avenue Park was once part of the grounds of Avenue House, a fine C18th house which was demolished in 1949. It adjoins Cranford Community Park, which lies on the other side of the River Crane. The grounds were requisitioned during WWII after which Heston and Isleworth Borough Council took possession of the property and spent over £10,000 on its layout for a public park, which included a rest garden and children's playground. In the north end of the present park is a woodland area, and trees bordering the Crane river include oak, ash, willow and alder.

Avery Hill Park was formed from parkland of Col. John North's Victorian mansion, Avery Hill, built for him c1888. By 1891 his estate was over 270ha, including land now known as Shooters Hill Woodlands, which was used partly for shooting and some let for farming. On his death in 1896 the estate was auctioned, much of it eventually purchased in 1902 by the LCC, some land remaining in private usage. Avery Hill Park was opened in 1903/04 and includes remains of the gardens close to the house and wider parkland with some fine trees. The mansion and its Winter Garden are in separate ownership of University of Greenwich. The old East Lodge remains at the park entrance on Bexley Road, while the West Lodge provides the main entrance to the University.

Avery Hill was a late Victorian Italianate villa built for Colonel John Thomas North in c.1888 with fine gardens and an enormous conservatory where he housed his winter garden. North initially rented the estate and 20 acres of land but by 1891 had expanded it to over 270 ha, which included much of what is now Shooters Hill Woodlands, and it was used partly for shooting and some let for farming. On his death in 1896 the estate was auctioned, much of it eventually purchased by the LCC, part becoming Avery Hill Park. From 1906 the mansion was used as a college of education, Avery Hill College. The well-stocked Winter Garden is open to the public, and to the west are terraced flower gardens.

Avondale Park was laid out in in the 1890s by Kensington Borough Council on the former site of the main refuse dump and cesspool. The park opened to the public in 1892 and among the original facilities were a playground, shelter, entrance lodge and bandstand, the latter demolished in 1966. A grey granite drinking fountain was presented by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. In recent years a nature area has been created and there are ornamental bedding displays in some areas including around the Lodge.