Places to explore near Barnes StationBarnes

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

1 km NW · spans 7 counties

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

2 km E

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

3.9 km SW

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

4.3 km W

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

4.3 km NW · spans 9 counties

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

5.2 km W

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

5.6 km SW

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

6.2 km NE

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

6.5 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

7.2 km NE

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

7.2 km SW · London

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

7.5 km NE

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

7.7 km NE

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

8 km W

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

8 km NE

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

8.6 km NE

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

8.7 km NE

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

8.9 km NE

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

9.1 km SW

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

9.1 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

2.8 km W

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

3.2 km S · London

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

4.1 km SE

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

4.3 km SW

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

4.9 km S