Places to explore near West Hampstead Thameslink StationWest Hampstead

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

2 km N

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

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

3.7 km NE

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

4.8 km S

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

5 km SE

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

5.7 km SE

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

6 km SE

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

6.2 km SE

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

6.3 km SE

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

6.4 km SE

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

6.6 km SE · spans 7 counties

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

7.1 km SE

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

7.2 km SE

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

7.5 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.

7.5 km SE

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

8.7 km S

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

9.2 km SE

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

9.4 km SE

A dramatic linear park by Janet Jack, threading a celebrated 1970s housing estate.

1.2 km SE

A National Trust place in London.

1.4 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

1.8 km NE

A National Trust place in London.

1.8 km NE

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

2.5 km SE · London

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

3.1 km SW