Places to explore near Kensington (Olympia) StationOlympia

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

1.6 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

2.4 km NE

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

2.8 km N · spans 9 counties

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

3 km S

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

3.6 km E

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

4.1 km E

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

4.6 km E

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

4.7 km E

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

5.4 km E

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

5.8 km E

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

5.8 km E

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

5.9 km E

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

7 km SW

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

7.7 km N

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.

7.9 km E

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

8 km SW

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

8.4 km E

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

8.8 km NE

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

8.8 km SW

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

9.4 km E

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

9.4 km E

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

9.4 km SW

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

9.8 km W

A National Trust place in London.

1.4 km E

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

3.2 km NE · London

A National Trust place in London.

3.2 km SE

London's first great Victorian cemetery, opened in 1833, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel lies.

3.5 km N

London's oldest botanic garden, founded in 1673 to train apprentice apothecaries.

3.7 km SE

Decimus Burton's 1820s triumphal arch on Hyde Park Corner, crowned by Adrian Jones's bronze quadriga, the largest bronze sculpture in Europe.

4.2 km E