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Deptford Park is a large urban park close to the River Thames photo: Stephen Craven, geograph.org.uk. Deptford Park is a public park in Deptford south-east London. It is owned by London Borough of Lewisham. The closest local stations are Deptford and Surrey Quays.
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 ...
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.
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]
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]
The borough covered the same area of the parish of Deptford St Paul, which had been separated from the neighbouring parish of Deptford St Nicholas to its north in 1730. The rateable values of the two parishes had been roughly equal when they were separated, but St Paul contained all the farmland to the south, the majority of which was built on over the next 170 years.
The park began life in 1880 as a small recreation ground near the Kent Waterworks' reservoir, which supplied water to homes in Deptford and Greenwich, drawing water from the Ravensbourne. [1] In the 1920s, part of the by then disused reservoir was infilled and added to the area, creating Brookmill Park. [2]
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.