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The park covers an area of 7.07 hectares (17 acres) and is accessed from Evelyn Street, with the entrance retaining traditional iron gates and railings and a small avenue of London planes. The original structure of the park is largely intact, with a perimeter pathway lined with further mature London planes. [1]
Deptford Park – owned by the Borough since 1897. Folkestone Gardens – 1970s park close to Deptford Park and created from an area of land badly damaged by a V-2 rocket in 1945. Part of the London Cycle Network, and notable for its large pond and children's play area. Forster Memorial Park – east of the A21 road in the Whitefoot and ...
Deptford's economic history has been strongly connected to the Dockyard - when the Dockyard was thriving, so Deptford thrived; with the docks now all closed, Deptford has declined economically. [ 24 ] [ 35 ] However, areas of Deptford are being gradually re-developed and gentrified - and the local council has plans to regenerate the riverside ...
The Creekside Discovery Centre is a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) natural habitat in Deptford in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is owned by the National Grid and managed by the Creekside Education Trust. Formerly a gas works, [2] the centre is a brownfield habitat incorporating the only existing sloping beach into Deptford Creek. [3]
Folkestone Gardens is a small urban park located in Deptford, south east London. Now part of the London Borough of Lewisham, it was created during the 1970s on an area badly damaged by bombs in World War II. The park was named after a street of railwaymen's houses that once stood on part of the site.
Deptford War Memorial Junction of Upper Brockley Road and Lewisham Way: 1919–1921: William Wheatley Wagstaff: William Roberts: War memorial with sculpture Grade II: Unveiled 1921 by Major-General Sir Charles Townshend. [2]
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Sayes Court Park in 2008 Sayes Court was a manor house and garden in Deptford , in the London Borough of Lewisham on the Thames Path and in the former parish of St Nicholas . Sayes Court once attracted throngs to visit its celebrated garden [ 1 ] [ 2 ] created by the seventeenth century diarist John Evelyn .