Green landscapes, spaces, and places around the city.
Grade II listed historic park landscape containing several listed buildings, including an 18C 'temple' building, bothy and compound, and walled kitchen garden, converted in 1937 to an informally planted garden by Harrow Council.
Various architects, 1713
Early 18C Grade II listed building incorporating plunge bath with Delft tiles, orangery, saloon and pump chamber with part-restored water wheel. Hermitage and sham bridge in grounds.
Unknown, 1717
Company Drinks is a local drinks enterprise and community hub based in Barking Park. Our space includes a beautiful community garden and a former outdoor bowls pavilion that's now home to social areas, a community kitchen, and creative making spaces. Our Annual Community Open Day on 13th September is a fun, family-friendly free event with workshops, taster sessions and tours of the site.
Artist/Spatial Designer Sahra Hersi, 2021
Visit the life long home of Edward Augustus Bowles, one of the 20th century's great gardeners, that was restored by Heritage Lottery Fund in 2011 to tell the story of the famous botanist’s life and gardening style.
Henry Carrington Bowles, 1818
Olden Community Garden - a hidden 2.5 acre green oasis along a railway embankment in Islington. Sit beside the lawn; listen to birdsong; follow trails through the woodland, meadow and orchard; discover vegetable patches and a wildlife pond.
Community Garden, 1986
Sitopia Farm is a 2-acre organic and regenerative farm in the London Borough of Greenwich. We are on a mission to improve our food system. We grow vegetables and flowers and sell direct to our local community, to chefs, and to florists. Through our farming and events, courses and community volunteering, we reconnect people to the soil, the joy of good food and flowers, and to each other.
, 2021
The Barbican is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes, and houses in the City of London. Built on the site destroyed by The Blitz during the World War II, The Barbican Estate is a fascinating development and an icon of Brutalist architecture. Architects were Chamberlain, Powell and Bon. You will find an oasis in the middle of buildings, with gardens and water features.
Chamberlain Powell and Bon, 1970