A 17th-century house on the Thames, home of the Duchess of Lauderdale and kept with much of its original furniture and decoration. It is said to be one of the most haunted houses in Britain.
Walk along the river from Richmond, or take the little foot ferry across from Marble Hill. The formal gardens and the café in the orangery are lovely in summer.
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 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 …
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…
A 135 m observation wheel on the South Bank of the Thames, opposite the Houses of Parliament.
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