Places to explore near London Paddington StationPaddington

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

0.2 km N · spans 9 counties

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

1.1 km S

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

1.4 km SE

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

2.2 km SE

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

2.6 km SE

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

2.8 km SE

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

3.3 km SE

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

3.5 km E

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

3.7 km S · spans 7 counties

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

3.9 km SE

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

4 km SE

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.

5.4 km E

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

5.5 km N

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

5.6 km SW

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

5.7 km E

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

5.9 km N

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

7 km E

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

7.1 km E

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

9.6 km E

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

0.8 km NW · London

A National Trust place in London.

2 km SW

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

2.3 km SE

A dramatic linear park by Janet Jack, threading a celebrated 1970s housing estate.

2.6 km N

A National Trust place in London.

3.4 km SE

A National Trust place in London.

3.6 km S

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

3.6 km S