Places to explore near London Kings Cross StationKings Cross

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

2.3 km SE

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

2.3 km S · spans 7 counties

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.

2.5 km SE

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

2.6 km S

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

3 km S

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

3.3 km SW

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

3.5 km S

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

3.6 km SW

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

3.6 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.

3.6 km SW

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

3.7 km SW

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

3.7 km W · spans 9 counties

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

4.1 km SE

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

4.2 km N

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

4.3 km SE

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

4.7 km SW

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

5.6 km NW

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

5.7 km E

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

9.2 km SW

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

0.5 km NW · London

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

0.6 km S

A National Trust place in London.

1.2 km S

An Inn of Court whose garden, The Walks, was laid out partly under Francis Bacon.

1.4 km SE

A National Trust place in London.

2.2 km S

A Nonconformist burial ground where Blake, Bunyan and Defoe lie among plane trees.

2.5 km E

A ribbon of green on land reclaimed when Bazalgette built his great embankment.

2.5 km S

Lutyens's plain Portland stone war memorial in the middle of Whitehall, unveiled in 1920 and the focus of Remembrance Sunday each November.

3.1 km S