Places to explore near Acton Central StationActon

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

2.4 km NE · spans 9 counties

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

2.5 km SE · spans 7 counties

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

4.9 km SW

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

5.4 km SE

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

5.9 km E

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

6.5 km W

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

7.1 km E

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

7.3 km SW

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

7.7 km E

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

7.8 km S

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

8.1 km SW

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

8.2 km E

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

8.3 km E

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

8.4 km NE

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

9 km E

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

9.3 km E

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

9.4 km SW · London

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

9.5 km E

Barry and Pugin's Gothic home of Parliament, rebuilt after the 1834 fire around medieval Westminster Hall, with Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower.

9.6 km E

The non-tidal Thames — 45 locks of managed river between Cricklade's meadows and the tideway at Teddington.

9.6 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

3.5 km NE

London's inner orbital walk, stringing together 78 miles of parks, canals and viewpoints through the middle suburbs.

4.4 km SW · London

A National Trust place in London.

5.1 km E

London's canal — from Little Venice round Regent's Park and through Camden Town to the Thames at Limehouse.

5.7 km E · London

A National Trust place in London.

5.7 km S