Places to explore near Hounslow StationHounslow

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

2.7 km E · spans 7 counties

A Robert Adam mansion and its lakes, hemmed in by the west London suburbs but still a proper green escape

3.2 km N

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

3.3 km SE · London

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

3.7 km E

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

3.9 km N · spans 9 counties

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

4.1 km SE

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

4.2 km E

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

4.7 km SE · spans 7 counties

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

6.4 km SE

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

7.2 km SE

Vast oak-framed barn of the 1420s built for Winchester College near Heathrow, which John Betjeman called the Cathedral of Middlesex.

8.7 km W

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

1.3 km SW · spans 5 counties

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

2.7 km E · London

A tree-lined promenade of about 1700 above a much-painted Thames view.

4.5 km E

A country park in London.

5.5 km W

A National Trust place in London.

5.7 km E