Places to explore near Chiswick StationChiswick

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

0.4 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

2.2 km W · spans 9 counties

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

2.6 km W

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

3.9 km E

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

4.6 km SW

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

4.7 km S

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

5.3 km SW

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

5.9 km W

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

6.7 km SW · London

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

6.7 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

6.8 km NE

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

8 km E

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

8.4 km E

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

8.8 km E

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

9 km E

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

9.5 km SW

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

9.7 km E

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

9.9 km E

A National Trust place in London.

2.7 km S

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

3 km W · London

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

3.9 km SW

A National Trust place in London.

5.7 km E

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

6.1 km NE