Ham and Kingston, River Thames

The river from its Cotswold trickle to the Thames Barrier — the gentlest long walk in Britain.

here · spans 7 counties

A rare survival of a grand Stuart house, with formal 17th-century gardens right on the Thames at Richmond

1.7 km N

Horace Walpole's self-styled little Gothic castle of 1749, which launched the Gothic Revival.

2 km NW · London

A 1720s Palladian villa built for a royal mistress, with Alexander Pope's input.

2.6 km N

London's largest royal park, roamed by red and fallow deer.

2.7 km NE

Early English landscape garden with a grass amphitheatre, lake and island pavilion, worked on by Vanbrugh, Bridgeman, Kent and Brown.

9 km SW