Places to explore near North Dulwich StationDulwich Village

One of London's Magnificent Seven Victorian garden cemeteries, opened in 1837.

2.5 km S

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

4.3 km NW · spans 7 counties

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

5.6 km NW

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

5.6 km NW

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

5.7 km N

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

6 km N

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

6.3 km NW

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

6.5 km NW

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

6.5 km NE

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

6.6 km NW

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.

6.6 km N

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

6.7 km NW

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

7 km NW

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

7.3 km N

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

7.8 km NW

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

8.5 km NW

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

8.9 km W

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

9.2 km NW · spans 9 counties

A 1470s medieval Great Hall grafted onto a 1930s Art Deco Courtauld mansion.

9.5 km E

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

9.7 km N

London's flood defence across the tideway at Woolwich — ten steel gates that rise from the riverbed when a surge threatens the city.

9.9 km NE

A web of green corridors across south-east London, joining the Thames marshes to Nunhead Cemetery park by park.

0.9 km S · London

One of London's Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries, now half-wild with rare butterflies.

2.7 km E

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

3.6 km S · London

A National Trust place in London.

4 km NW

Moated stone tower of the 1360s built to hold Edward III's personal treasure, one of the few survivors of the medieval Palace of Westminster.

5.6 km NW

Tall west gable with a 14th-century rose window, surviving from the Southwark palace where Winchester's bishops stayed when in London.

5.7 km N

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

6 km NW