Places to explore near Twickenham StationTwickenham

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

0.5 km S · spans 7 counties

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

1.3 km E

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

1.4 km S · London

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

1.5 km SE

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

2.4 km S · spans 7 counties

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

3.1 km NE

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

3.7 km N · spans 9 counties

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

3.9 km E

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

4.7 km N

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

5.3 km S

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

8.4 km E

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

1.6 km NE · London

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

2.2 km E

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

2.5 km W · spans 5 counties

A National Trust place in London.

3.6 km E

Pair of Tudor conduit houses in Coombe, Kingston, joined underground, which sent spring water beneath the Thames to Hampton Court.

5.8 km SE