Places to explore near Putney StationPutney

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

0.4 km N · spans 7 counties

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

1.1 km N

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

4.8 km SW

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

5.7 km NE

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

6.2 km W

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

6.2 km NW · spans 9 counties

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

6.5 km NE

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

6.5 km NE

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

6.6 km NE

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

6.7 km W

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

6.9 km NE

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

7 km W

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

7.5 km NE

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

7.5 km NE

The non-tidal Thames — 45 locks of managed river between Cricklade's meadows and the tideway at Teddington.

7.5 km SW · 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.

7.6 km NE

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

8 km NE

Horace Walpole's self-styled little Gothic castle of 1749, which launched the Gothic Revival.

8.6 km W · London

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

8.8 km E

Henry VIII's Thames-side palace, with Wren's baroque wing and the maze.

9.8 km SW

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

9.9 km W

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

2.3 km S · London

A large green space around a nine-hectare lake landscaped in the 18th century.

2.8 km S

A National Trust place in London.

4.1 km NE

A Wimbledon garden of mature trees with a sunken garden and rose garden.

4.3 km S

A National Trust place in London.

4.4 km W

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

4.6 km NE