Knight & Bessborough Reservoirs

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

0.8 km N · spans 7 counties

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

4.9 km E

Early English landscape garden with a grass amphitheatre, lake and island pavilion, worked on by Vanbrugh, Bridgeman, Kent and Brown.

4.9 km S

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

5.7 km NE · London

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

7.2 km NE

Restored 18th-century landscape garden of follies, a crystal grotto and a serpentine lake set out by Charles Hamilton.

8.4 km S