Houses & gardens in LondonLondon, England

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

The monarch's London palace, its State Rooms open each summer.

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

Henry VIII's Thames-side palace, with Wren's baroque wing and the maze.

London's great royal park of the Serpentine and Speakers' Corner.

World Heritage botanic garden of the Palm House and the Pagoda.

Nelson's Column and the National Gallery at the heart of London.

A Victorian burial ground of 1839 where Karl Marx and George Eliot lie.

Queen Caroline's 1720s pleasure garden, with J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan statue by the Long Water.

A Robert Adam mansion and its lakes, hemmed in by the west London suburbs but still a proper green escape

London's oldest royal park, enclosed by Henry VIII, with pelicans kept here since 1664.

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

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Planting threaded through brutalist walkways on the site of London's first public park.

Charles Darwin's home for forty years, where he wrote On the Origin of Species.

William Morris's own home in Bexleyheath, the house where the Arts and Crafts idea took shape

A 1470s medieval Great Hall grafted onto a 1930s Art Deco Courtauld mansion.

The Bishops of London's country home for over a thousand years, with a 1490s Tudor courtyard.

One of the Royal Parks, walled by Charles II in 1660 — just trees and grass.

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

An Edwardian pergola of stone columns and wisteria built for soap magnate Lord Leverhulme.

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

London's first public park, opened in 1845 and long known as the People's Park.

One of London's Magnificent Seven Victorian garden cemeteries, opened in 1837.

Wellington's townhouse at Hyde Park Corner, nicknamed Number One London, filled with his paintings and Canova's colossal nude statue of Napoleon.

Red-brick Georgian villa beside Greenwich Park holding the Wernher Collection, a diamond magnate's hoard of Renaissance jewels, paintings and other art.

A dramatic linear park by Janet Jack, threading a celebrated 1970s housing estate.

The best-preserved Georgian square in London, its terraces begun in 1775.

A Nonconformist burial ground where Blake, Bunyan and Defoe lie among plane trees.

A Wimbledon garden of mature trees with a sunken garden and rose garden.

London's oldest botanic garden, founded in 1673 to train apprentice apothecaries.

An Inn of Court whose garden, The Walks, was laid out partly under Francis Bacon.

London's first great Victorian cemetery, opened in 1833, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel lies.

One of London's Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries, now half-wild with rare butterflies.

A tree-lined promenade of about 1700 above a much-painted Thames view.

A Bloomsbury burial ground of 1714, reopened as a public garden among old headstones and mature trees.

Opened in 1854 as London's first municipal burial ground, with more interments than any UK cemetery.

A ribbon of green on land reclaimed when Bazalgette built his great embankment.

The surviving lakes and grotto of a grand Georgian mansion demolished by a gambling owner.

Terraced lawns given to Londoners in 1889 as a garden for the gardenless.

A large green space around a nine-hectare lake landscaped in the 18th century.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.

A National Trust place in London.