Places to explore near Claygate StationClaygate

Early English landscape garden with a grass amphitheatre, lake and island pavilion, worked on by Vanbrugh, Bridgeman, Kent and Brown.

2.1 km W

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

3.7 km NE · spans 7 counties

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

3.7 km NE · spans 7 counties

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

4.9 km N

Ancient Mole-side church holding what is often called England's oldest monumental brass, to Sir John d'Abernon of 1277.

5.7 km SW

Restored 18th-century landscape garden of follies, a crystal grotto and a serpentine lake set out by Charles Hamilton.

6.7 km SW

Wooded ridges and heathy commons an hour from London, with gentle hills and paths made for an easy day out

8 km S

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

8.5 km N · London

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

9.4 km N

A National Trust place in Surrey.

3.1 km SW

A country park in Surrey.

3.7 km SE

The 'M25 for walkers' — an orbital path through outer London's woods, commons and river valleys from Erith to Purfleet.

5.3 km E · spans 5 counties

A National Trust place in Surrey.

5.5 km SW

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey.

6.7 km S

A National Trust place in Surrey.

7.3 km E

Surrey's seventeenth-century navigation, in the National Trust's care, from the Thames at Weybridge up to Godalming.

7.9 km W · Surrey

Pair of Tudor conduit houses in Coombe, Kingston, joined underground, which sent spring water beneath the Thames to Hampton Court.

8.1 km NE