Places to explore near Forest Hill StationForest Hill

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

3.2 km W

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

5.1 km N · spans 7 counties

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

5.6 km NE

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

7.1 km E

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

7.5 km N

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

7.8 km N

Barry and Pugin's Gothic home of Parliament, rebuilt after the 1834 fire around medieval Westminster Hall, with Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower.

8.3 km NW

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

8.4 km NW

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

8.8 km NE

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.

8.9 km N

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

9 km NE

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

9.1 km NW

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

9.2 km NW

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

9.3 km NW

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

9.4 km N

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

9.5 km NW

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

9.9 km NW

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

0.7 km NW · London

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

1.9 km S · London

One of London's Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries, now half-wild with rare butterflies.

2.6 km N

A country park in London.

4.2 km S

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

5.2 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

6.9 km NW

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

7.7 km S · spans 5 counties

From East Croydon station to the sea at Newhaven, named for the rambling club founded in a crowded train's guard's van in 1965.

7.7 km S · spans 4 counties