Editing London Borough of Sutton (section)

===Main parks===
Green spaces range from the compact [[Manor Park, Sutton|Manor Park]] in [[Sutton, London|Sutton town centre]] and Sutton Green just to the north of Sutton town centre, through the medium-sized [[Grove Park, Carshalton|Grove Park]], which forms a notable part of the Carshalton conservation area, to the large and historic [[Oaks Park, Carshalton|Oaks Park]] in the south of the borough. In the west is the large [[Nonsuch Park]], the majority of which (including the mansion) lies in the neighbouring borough of [[Epsom and Ewell]].

Just to the north of Sutton town centre there is more extensive green space in the form of Sutton Common, which originally (until the beginning of the 19th century) encompassed the aforementioned Sutton Green. Today, a small portion of Sutton Common is given over to a major junior tennis facility. The common extends both to the east and west of Angel Hill.
Slightly further in the opposite direction out of Sutton lie Banstead Common and Banstead Downs—these start a few hundred yards from the southern end of the town, and extend for an additional mile south in the direction of neighbouring [[Banstead]].

[[Manor Park, Sutton|Manor Park]] was created in 1914 on a site in the town centre opposite the police station. Its grounds include the Sutton War Memorial, which was added in 1921. A fountain was added in 1924. In 2010 its new café of straw-bale construction was London's first environmentally friendly building to use this building method.

Features of interest in the Victorian [[Grove Park, Carshalton|Grove Park]] include a white [[Portland stone]] bridge, known as the ''Leoni Bridge'' where ''Lower Pond'' meets the park. Upper Mill is recent reconstruction of a [[watermill]] that has existed here from Anglo-Saxon times. The cascade is near the footbridge towards the Stone Court corner of the park. The 1.5m fall is now ornamental in design and was reconstructed in the 1960s. Its original purpose was to create a head of water to power Upper Mill.

[[Oaks Park, Carshalton|Oaks Park]] has a long history. It was substantially laid out for the [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]] in the 1770s, but its villa dates back to around 1750 and is in that era's fashionable landscape style, with trees forming a perimeter screen and placed in artful clumps to suggest a natural landscape.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Oaks & Oaks Park, London Borough of Sutton |url=http://www.sutton.gov.uk/leisure/heritage/Carshalton/oaksandpark.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507113955/http://www.sutton.gov.uk/leisure/heritage/Carshalton/oaksandpark.htm |archive-date=7 May 2008 }}</ref>

[[Nonsuch Park]] near [[Cheam]] in the west is the last surviving part of the Little Park of Nonsuch, a deer hunting park established by [[Henry VIII of England]] surrounding the former [[Nonsuch Palace]]. The name "Nonsuch" was given as, it was claimed, there was "none such place like it" in Europe.<ref>[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol01/vol01_05/01_05_111_113.pdf ''Nonsuch: A Lost Tudor Palace''], [[Philippa Glanville]]</ref>