Places to explore near Custom Houserailway station

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

1.4 km SE

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

1.6 km SW · spans 7 counties

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

4.1 km SW

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

5 km SE

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

5.7 km NW

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

7.1 km W

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

7.1 km S

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

7.2 km W

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

8.5 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.

8.7 km W

William Morris's own home in Bexleyheath, the house where the Arts and Crafts idea took shape

9.3 km SE

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

1.2 km E · London

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

1.6 km W · spans 4 counties

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

1.8 km SE · London

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

2.9 km NW · London, Hertfordshire & Essex

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

3 km SE · spans 24 counties

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

4.3 km W · London

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

4.5 km SW

A National Trust place in London.

5.7 km NE