Places to explore near Clapham Junction StationClapham Junction

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

0.8 km NW · spans 7 counties

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

3.1 km W

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

4.4 km NE

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

4.5 km N

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

4.7 km N

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

4.8 km NE

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

4.9 km N

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

4.9 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.

5 km NE

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

5.2 km NE

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

5.7 km NE

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

6 km N · spans 9 counties

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

6.1 km SE

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.

7.4 km NE

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

7.9 km W

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

8 km NE

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

8.1 km NE

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

8.2 km NE

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

9.3 km W

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

10 km W

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

1.5 km S · London

A National Trust place in London.

2.1 km E

A National Trust place in London.

2.2 km N

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

2.3 km N

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

3.9 km SW

A National Trust place in London.

4.3 km N

Decimus Burton's 1820s triumphal arch on Hyde Park Corner, crowned by Adrian Jones's bronze quadriga, the largest bronze sculpture in Europe.

4.5 km N