Places to explore near Richmond (London) StationRichmond

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

0.7 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

1.1 km N

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

1.6 km SW

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

2.1 km N · spans 9 counties

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

2.4 km S

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

3.1 km SE

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

3.7 km SW · London

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

3.9 km S · spans 7 counties

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

4.6 km NW

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

6.1 km E

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

6.9 km S

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

9.8 km NE

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

0.6 km SW · London

A tree-lined promenade of about 1700 above a much-painted Thames view.

1.2 km S

A National Trust place in London.

1.6 km E

The 'M25 for walkers' — an orbital path through outer London's woods, commons and river valleys from Erith to Purfleet.

5 km SW · spans 5 counties

Pair of Tudor conduit houses in Coombe, Kingston, joined underground, which sent spring water beneath the Thames to Hampton Court.

5.8 km SE