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Hillingdon Court was built in 1854-8 by P C Hardwick for the banker Charles Mills, later Lord Hillingdon. Since 1978 it has been the American Community School and although the grounds are much reduced, formal gardens remain to south and east, the latter with an open prospect to Hillingdon Court Park.

Barra Hall Park was formerly the grounds of Barra Hall, a Jacobean-style mansion built in 1872 and originally called Grove Lodge. In 1923 Hayes and Harlington UDC acquired the site, using the mansion as its Town Hall. The grounds became a public park, for a time known as Town Hall Park. By 1928 the park had a cast iron bandstand, cast iron shelter together with other facilities. An open-air theatre in the park became derelict and in c.2005 was later by a modern theatre.

Cavendish Pavilion was built in 1914 for Debenhams store as a staff recreation centre in what was then open countryside. It is now Cavendish Recreation Ground with formal rose gardens to the south of the building. An area of hillocky, semi-natural ground separates the recreation ground from the adjacent Bessingby Park and Pine Gardens, which were laid out in the mid-C20th.

Breakspear Crematorium was established by Ruislip-Northwood and Uxbridge Crematorium Joint Committee in 1957, set in a landscape with woodlands to the north and quite open countryside to the west. The landscaping is extensive and has a complex layout with formal garden 'rooms' within conifer hedging in various configurations, rose gardens, a water garden with pond, waterfall and rockwork, as well as more natural areas and woodland. There are numerous trees throughout the cemetery, with a preponderance of evergreen varieties.

Breakspears was the seat of the Ashby family from the C16th - C20th, an extensive estate with pleasure grounds and parkland, remnants of which survive. In private occupation until 1951, from 1956-87 Breakspears House was an old people's home and it is now converted as private apartments set in grounds that contain remnants of the earlier landscaping. An early C16th dovecote survives to the north of the house, and the private grounds today contain rose gardens, a pinetum and walled garden.

In 1962, c.60.75 hectares of former agricultural land was acquired as the site for the new Brunel University when the College of Advanced Technology in Acton, established in 1957, was upgraded and expanded. It was named after Isambard Brunel whose Great Western Railway passed through Acton. The campus was landscaped with lawns, shrubberies and a number of formal areas. New green spaces have been created as a result of a major programme of campus improvement works since 2005.

In July 1936 Hayes and Harlington UDC acquired this land for use as a burial ground. Cherry Lane Cemetery was opened in 1936 with the first burial taking place in 1937, and an additional portion was consecrated in May 1944. It is so called because the former name of Shepiston Lane was Cherry Lane. Within the cemetery is the EMI Memorial commemorating 37 people who died when a bomb landed on the EMI factory in Hayes in WWII.

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

The site has vestiges of the C17th garden complex of the former Harefield Place, now demolished, where Queen Elizabeth I is known to have visited in 1602. The walled garden and a coach house, now known as Church House, are all that remains of the original estate, the latter a remnant outbuilding to the larger house, which is also C17th in origin, with late C18th/early C19th additions. Features of the garden include a nuttery and remains of terracing, and garden walls south-west of the cottage enclose two inner garden areas. On the south-west face of the north-east wall is an arcade of tall round-backed niches with half hemispherical heads, also C17th. The property was purchased by Mr and Mrs McHugh in 1996, who have undertaken restoration work, including some of the historical features, as well as replanting the walled garden.

Churchfield Gardens were formerly fields next to the old Ruislip parish church of St Martin's. The land was passed over to Ruislip and Northwood UDC by Harold George Dyke on 16 November 1927, the land transfer document dictating that it was to be preserved for use as a public open space in perpetuity. It was laid out as a recreation ground, with a formal rose garden in the north part, which is still in place today with a central ornamental feature. The park opens out to a grassed area, with various trees including a grove of horse chestnuts.

Connaught Recreation Ground is a small park with rose beds and playgrounds in the north, fronted by railings onto Uxbridge Road. It was laid out by the mid-1930s as housing was increasingly developed here, prior to which it is shown on OS maps as a field and there were nurseries in the area into the C20th. A drinking fountain and path layout are shown in 1935 with a park lodge and lavotories in place by 1965, and allotment gardens to the south-east of the park.

Cowley Recreation Ground was laid out on the former parkland of Cowley House, an C18th mansion that still stands to the north on the High Street, Cowley. The site was purchased by the local council on 13 March 1929, and in August of the same year adjoining land owned by the Fassnidge family was added to the new park. It was further expanded in later years.

Cranford was once a fine country estate, owned from 1618 to 1918 by the Berkeley family, who made alterations to the house and grounds. Cranford House, their summer seat, was demolished in c.1944 and in the 1950s the remains of the estate became a public park, now called Cranford Countryside Park. Fragments of the former landscape that remain include the early C18th stable block, part of a Ha-Ha, crinkle-crankle wall, walled garden, icehouse and parkland trees.