Places to explore near Syon Lane StationBrentford End

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

0.7 km E · spans 7 counties

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

0.7 km NE · spans 9 counties

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

1.8 km SE

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

2.1 km NW

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

3.6 km S

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

4.5 km S

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

5 km S · London

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

5.8 km SE

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

5.8 km S · spans 7 counties

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

7.8 km E

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

8.8 km S

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

0.7 km NE · London

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

3.7 km SE

A National Trust place in London.

4.1 km SE

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

4.7 km SW · spans 5 counties