A Tudor mansion transformed by Robert Adam in the 18th century for the Child family of bankers, with some of his finest interiors, from the Etruscan dressing room to the tapestry room. The house sits in a large park with lakes and gardens.
It's on the Piccadilly line at Osterley, an easy trip from central London.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, in south-west London, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, hold one of the largest collections of living plants in the wor…
A 17th-century house on the Thames, home of the Duchess of Lauderdale and kept with much of its original furniture and decoration.
A cathedral-like Victorian museum in South Kensington, with a blue whale skeleton hanging in the great Hintze Hall, dinosaurs including a moving T.
The north-east corner of Hyde Park, near Marble Arch, has been London's home of free speech since 1872.
Westminster Abbey has been the coronation church of English monarchs since 1066, and holds the tombs of kings and queens, and of Newton, Darwin and m…
The water meadow beside the Thames where King John agreed to Magna Carta in 1215, the charter that became a foundation of law and liberty.
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