Places to explore near Haydons Road StationSouth Wimbledon

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

4 km N · spans 7 counties

The Bishops of London's country home for over a thousand years, with a 1490s Tudor courtyard.

5.4 km N

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

6.3 km W

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

6.3 km E

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

8.1 km W · spans 7 counties

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

8.8 km W

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

8.9 km N

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

9 km W

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

9 km N

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

9.1 km N

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

9.2 km NE

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

9.3 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.

9.4 km NE

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

9.4 km N

World Heritage botanic garden of the Palm House and the Pagoda.

9.5 km NW

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

9.6 km W

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

9.6 km NE

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

10 km NW · spans 9 counties

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

1.2 km NW · London

A large green space around a nine-hectare lake landscaped in the 18th century.

1.8 km NW

A National Trust place in London.

2.5 km S

A Wimbledon garden of mature trees with a sunken garden and rose garden.

2.9 km W

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

5.6 km W

A National Trust place in London.

5.9 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

6.7 km N