Places to explore near Surrey Quays StationSurrey Quays

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

1 km E · spans 7 counties

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

2.4 km NW

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

2.6 km NW

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

3.6 km SE

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.

4.2 km NW

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

4.4 km NW

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

4.9 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.

5.4 km W

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

5.5 km W

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

5.8 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.

5.9 km E

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

6 km W

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

6.8 km W

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

6.8 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.

7.3 km W

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

7.6 km SW

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

8 km W

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

8.1 km E

A 1470s medieval Great Hall grafted onto a 1930s Art Deco Courtauld mansion.

8.5 km SE

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

9.1 km W · spans 9 counties

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

9.2 km W

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

1.8 km N · London

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

2 km N · spans 4 counties

A web of green corridors across south-east London, joining the Thames marshes to Nunhead Cemetery park by park.

3 km S · London

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

3.3 km NW

One of London's Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries, now half-wild with rare butterflies.

3.4 km S

Red-brick Georgian villa beside Greenwich Park holding the Wernher Collection, a diamond magnate's hoard of Renaissance jewels, paintings and other art.

3.9 km SE

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

4.2 km NE · London, Hertfordshire & Essex

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

4.4 km NW

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

5 km NE · London