Places to explore near Harringay StationHarringay

A Victorian burial ground of 1839 where Karl Marx and George Eliot lie.

3.1 km SW

An Edwardian pergola of stone columns and wisteria built for soap magnate Lord Leverhulme.

5.5 km W

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

6.3 km SE

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

6.5 km S

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.

7.1 km S

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

7.4 km S · spans 7 counties

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

7.9 km S

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

8 km S

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

8 km SW · spans 9 counties

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

8.2 km S

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

8.4 km S

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

8.6 km SW

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

8.6 km S

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

8.8 km S

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

8.8 km S

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

8.8 km S

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

9 km S

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

9.3 km SW

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

0.6 km SW · London

Terraced lawns given to Londoners in 1889 as a garden for the gardenless.

2.9 km W

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

3 km E · spans 4 counties

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

3 km E · London, Hertfordshire & Essex

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

4.6 km SW · London

Opened in 1854 as London's first municipal burial ground, with more interments than any UK cemetery.

4.9 km NW

A National Trust place in London.

5 km SW

A National Trust place in London.

5 km SE