Places to explore near Canary Wharfrailway station

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

0.6 km W · spans 7 counties

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

3.4 km S

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

3.8 km NW

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

3.9 km W

London's flood defence across the tideway at Woolwich — ten steel gates that rise from the riverbed when a surge threatens the city.

4 km E

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

4 km W

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

5.4 km W

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.

5.6 km W

The triangular Georgian tower folly on Shooter's Hill, its viewing platform looking out over London and, on a clear day, seven counties.

7 km SE

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

7.4 km W

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

7.5 km W

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

7.6 km W

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

7.9 km W

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

8.1 km SE

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

8.6 km W

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

8.7 km W

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

9.2 km W

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

9.8 km W

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

9.9 km SW

Down the Lea from its source at Leagrave to the Thames at Limehouse — flat towpath walking through Hertford and the Olympic Park.

1.1 km NW · spans 4 counties

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

1.3 km NW · London

The Lea made navigable — from Hertford through the Lee Valley's reservoirs and marshes to Bow Locks on the edge of the Thames.

2 km NE · London, Hertfordshire & Essex

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

2.6 km NE · London

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

3.9 km S

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

4.1 km SE · London

Tall west gable with a 14th-century rose window, surviving from the Southwark palace where Winchester's bishops stayed when in London.

4.9 km W

A National Trust place in London.

5.2 km NW

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

5.2 km W