Places to explore near Kentish Town StationKentish Town

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

1.8 km N

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

3.3 km NW

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

4.2 km SW · spans 9 counties

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

4.7 km SE

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

4.8 km S

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

4.8 km S · spans 7 counties

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

4.9 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.

5 km SE

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

5.2 km S

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

5.2 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.

5.3 km S

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

5.5 km SW

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

5.6 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.

5.8 km S

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

5.8 km S

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

6.5 km SE

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

6.7 km SE

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

7 km E

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

1 km S · London

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

2 km N

A National Trust place in London.

2.1 km W

A National Trust place in London.

2.6 km NW

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

2.7 km N · London

A National Trust place in London.

2.9 km W

A Bloomsbury burial ground of 1714, reopened as a public garden among old headstones and mature trees.

3 km SE