Places to explore near Brixton StationBrixton

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

2.5 km N · spans 7 counties

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

3.6 km S

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

4.1 km N

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

4.1 km N

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

4.6 km NW

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

4.7 km N

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

4.9 km NW

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

5.1 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.

5.2 km NW

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

5.4 km NE

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

5.6 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.

5.7 km N

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

6 km NW

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

6.4 km N

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

6.5 km NW

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

7 km W

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

7.3 km NW · spans 9 counties

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

8 km E

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

9.6 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

2 km W

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

2.7 km SE · London

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

3.4 km SW · London

Moated stone tower of the 1360s built to hold Edward III's personal treasure, one of the few survivors of the medieval Palace of Westminster.

4 km N

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

4.1 km NW

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

4.3 km E

A National Trust place in London.

4.4 km N

Lutyens's plain Portland stone war memorial in the middle of Whitehall, unveiled in 1920 and the focus of Remembrance Sunday each November.

4.5 km N