Places to explore near South Acton StationSouth Acton

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

1.7 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

2.7 km SW · spans 9 counties

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

3.8 km SW

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

5 km SE

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

5.8 km W

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

6.2 km SW

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

6.4 km E

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

6.7 km S

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

7 km SW

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

7.6 km E

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

8.2 km SW · London

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

8.2 km E

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

8.5 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

8.7 km E

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

8.8 km E

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

9.5 km E

An Edwardian pergola of stone columns and wisteria built for soap magnate Lord Leverhulme.

9.5 km NE

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

9.9 km E

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

9.9 km E

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

3.4 km SW · London

London's first great Victorian cemetery, opened in 1833, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel lies.

4.5 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

4.6 km S

A National Trust place in London.

5.5 km E

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

5.6 km S