Places to explore near Shadwell StationShadwell

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

0.6 km SE · spans 7 counties

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

1.4 km SW

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

1.4 km W

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

2.8 km W

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.

2.9 km W

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

3.1 km N

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

4.9 km W

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

4.9 km W

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

5 km W

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

5.3 km SE

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

5.3 km W

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

6.1 km W

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

6.2 km W

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

6.6 km W

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

6.7 km E

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

7.2 km W

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

8 km W · spans 9 counties

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

8.4 km W

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

8.7 km NW

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

9.2 km S

The triangular Georgian tower folly on Shooter's Hill, its viewing platform looking out over London and, on a clear day, seven counties.

9.5 km SE

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

1.3 km E · London

Down the Lea from its source at Leagrave to the Thames at Limehouse — flat towpath walking through Hertford and the Olympic Park.

1.4 km E · spans 4 counties

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

2.3 km W

A Nonconformist burial ground where Blake, Bunyan and Defoe lie among plane trees.

2.6 km NW

The Lea made navigable — from Hertford through the Lee Valley's reservoirs and marshes to Bow Locks on the edge of the Thames.

3.6 km E · London, Hertfordshire & Essex

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

3.8 km NE · London

An Inn of Court whose garden, The Walks, was laid out partly under Francis Bacon.

4 km W

A National Trust place in London.

4.1 km W

A National Trust place in London.

4.2 km N