Places to explore near Esher StationEsher

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

2.2 km NE · spans 7 counties

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

2.2 km NE · spans 7 counties

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

3 km SW

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

3.3 km NE

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

6.5 km N · London

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

7.5 km N

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

7.6 km S

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

7.8 km SW

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

8.3 km N

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

8.5 km NE

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

3.7 km N · spans 5 counties

A National Trust place in Surrey.

4.2 km SW

A country park in Surrey.

5 km SE

A National Trust place in Surrey.

6.9 km SW

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

7.1 km NE

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

7.3 km W · Surrey

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

7.9 km NE · London

A National Trust place in Surrey.

8.3 km SE