Places to explore near Balham StationBalham

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

3.1 km NW · spans 7 counties

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

4 km E

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

5.3 km NW

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

6.4 km N

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

6.4 km N

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

6.5 km N

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

6.7 km N

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

6.8 km N

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

6.9 km N

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

7.3 km N

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

7.3 km N

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

7.4 km N

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

8.5 km N · spans 9 counties

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

8.6 km W

Victorian bascule bridge beside the Tower of London, opened in 1894, with glass-floored high walkways and steam-age engine rooms.

8.7 km NE

Wren's domed cathedral on Ludgate Hill, finished in 1710 after the Great Fire, with its Whispering Gallery and the tombs of Nelson and Wellington.

8.7 km NE

William the Conqueror's Thames fortress, home of the Crown Jewels.

9 km NE

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

9.4 km NE

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

0.2 km SW · London

A National Trust place in London.

3 km N

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

3.8 km W

A web of green corridors across south-east London, joining the Thames marshes to Nunhead Cemetery park by park.

4.2 km E · London

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

4.6 km N

A National Trust place in London.

4.7 km N

A National Trust place in London.

5.1 km SW