Places to explore near Tottenham Court Roadrailway station

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

0.9 km S

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

1 km SE · spans 7 counties

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

1.3 km S

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

1.6 km SW

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

1.9 km S

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

1.9 km S

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

2 km SW

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

2 km SW

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.

2.2 km E

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

2.3 km W

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

2.5 km E

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

2.9 km W · spans 9 counties

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

3.5 km W

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

3.9 km E

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

4 km E

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

5.7 km N

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

6.6 km NW

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

6.6 km E

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

7.6 km SW

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

9.5 km S

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

9.8 km SE

A National Trust place in London.

0.8 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

1.1 km SE

A ribbon of green on land reclaimed when Bazalgette built his great embankment.

1.1 km SE

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

1.2 km E

A Bloomsbury burial ground of 1714, reopened as a public garden among old headstones and mature trees.

1.3 km NE

Lutyens's plain Portland stone war memorial in the middle of Whitehall, unveiled in 1920 and the focus of Remembrance Sunday each November.

1.5 km S

A National Trust place in London.

1.7 km S

Moated stone tower of the 1360s built to hold Edward III's personal treasure, one of the few survivors of the medieval Palace of Westminster.

1.9 km S

Decimus Burton's 1820s triumphal arch on Hyde Park Corner, crowned by Adrian Jones's bronze quadriga, the largest bronze sculpture in Europe.

2 km SW