The view from the Richmond Hill, the Turner View, the protected by the Act of Parliament (the 1902, the Richmond Hill View Act, the first and only view in the UK protected by the law, because the J.M.W. Turner painted it and the nation decided it was too beautiful to ever the spoil), the view: the River Thames the winding through the Petersham Meadows (the silver, the serpentine, the 10 bends in the 3 miles, the longest unbroken stretch of the protected Thames the view in the London), the cattle on the meadows (the 150 the Aberdeen Angus that the graze the 500 the acres of the National Trust land), the St Paul’s Cathedral the 10 miles the distant (the dome the visible the through the haze, the sightline the protected by the Act), the Kingston at the horizon, and the Surrey the Hills beyond, is the greatest urban view in the England. The Richmond is the SW10, the 8 miles from the Charing Cross, the Zone 4, the 19 minutes on the SWR fast train from the Waterloo, and the Richmond is the most beautiful part of the London. Here is your guide.

Richmond, One of the Most Beautiful Parts of London

• The park and the river, the essential Richmond: The Richmond Park (the essential London the escape: the largest of the Royal Parks, the 2,500 acres, the 4 times the size of the Hyde Park): the deer (the 630 the red and the fallow deer the roaming the free, the descendants of the Charles I’s the hunting the herd from the 1637, and the essential Richmond Park experience: the stand the 10 metres from the 200-kilo the stag (the antlers, the rutting the bellow at the October the dawn), the Isabella Plantation (the 40-acre the woodland the garden, the free, the azalea, the rhododendron, the Japanese the maple, and the best spring the walk in the London, the essential: the late April to the early May for the azalea the bloom), the King Henry’s the Mound (the Bronze Age the burial the mound, the view of the St Paul’s 10 miles the away, the protected the sightline), the Pembroke Lodge (the Georgian, the café, the £5 for the cream the tea, the view of the Thames the Valley, and the best-value the cream the tea in the London), and the Tamsin the Trail (the 7.2 miles the circular the walk around the park, the 2.5 hours, and the best the walk in the London). The Richmond riverside: the walk from the Richmond Bridge to the Ham House (the 3 miles along the Thames Path, the flat, the 1 hour, the pubs: the White Swan (the £6 pint, the terrace on the river, the best pub in the Richmond), the Ham House (the 1610, the National Trust, the £13, the most complete the surviving the 17th-century house in the UK, the essential: the garden, the kitchen garden, the lavender, the orchard, and the best the 17th-century the garden in the London. The essential: the £0 for the garden if you walk in from the river), and the essential: the return the walk or the bus the 65 to the Richmond station. More UK →
• The Kew and the Petersham, the essential Richmond day: The Kew Gardens (the eastern edge of the Richmond, the essential botanical the garden): the 300 acres, the UNESCO, the £20 entry (the book the online for the £15), the Palm House (the 1848, the Victorian, the tropical, the essential: the climb the spiral the staircase to the walkway at the 9 metres up for the view into the palm canopy), the Temperate House (the largest Victorian the glasshouse in the world, the reopened in the 2018 after the 5-year, the £41 million the restoration), the Treetop Walkway (the 18-metre-high, the 200-metre walkway, the walk among the tree canopy), and the essential Kew experience: the 6am summer the openings (the selected the Sundays, the book the 3 months in advance for the £25, and the best the early-morning the walk in the London, the gardens are the empty and the birds are the only the noise). The Petersham Nurseries (the essential Richmond lunch): the plant nursery, the café, the £35 for the 2-course the lunch, the tables among the plants, the glasshouse, and the most beautiful the lunch in the London. The essential: the book the 3 weeks in the advance (the Telegraph the called it the “most beautiful café in the world”, and the 15 tables the book the out), the alternative: the Teahouse at the Petersham Nurseries, the £15 for the tea and the cake, the walk-in, and the best-value the Petersham the experience. The essential Richmond day: the 9am the Richmond Park the deer the walk, the 10am the Isabella Plantation, the 11am the King Henry’s Mound the view, the 12pm the Pembroke Lodge the cream tea, the 1pm the Ham House the garden, the 2pm the riverside the pub the lunch, the 4pm the Kew Gardens, the 7pm the Petersham the Nurseries the dinner.