Places to explore near Kempton Park StationKempton Park

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

1.6 km SE · spans 7 counties

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

1.7 km SE · spans 7 counties

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

5.5 km E · London

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

6.5 km E

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

7.1 km E

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

7.4 km S

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

7.5 km NE

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

8.4 km N · spans 9 counties

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

8.6 km NE

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

9.1 km NW

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

9.3 km NE

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

9.4 km E

A country park in London.

2.6 km NW

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

3.1 km NE · spans 5 counties

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

5.6 km SW · Surrey

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

7.8 km NE · London

A National Trust place in Surrey.

8.1 km S

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

8.4 km NE