Places to explore near Queenstown Road (Battersea) StationBattersea

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

0.3 km N · spans 7 counties

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

2.8 km N

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

3 km NE

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

3.1 km NE

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

3.2 km N

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

3.2 km N

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

3.4 km N

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

3.8 km N

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

3.9 km N

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

4.1 km NW

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

4.7 km W

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

5.2 km N · spans 9 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.

5.5 km NE

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

5.8 km SE

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

6 km NE

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

6.1 km NE

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

6.1 km NE

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

9.8 km SW

A National Trust place in London.

0.7 km SE

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

1.5 km NW

A National Trust place in London.

1.9 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.

3 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

3 km N

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

3.1 km SW · London

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

3.1 km N