Catford

Worth seeing in and around Catford

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Royal Observatory

   The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north. It played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and because the Prime Meridian passed through it, it gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time, the precursor to today's Coordinated Universal Time.

   3.9 km · observatory in Greenwich, London, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Goldsmiths, University of London

   Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths' College, University of London, is a constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London.

   3.4 km · public research university in London, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Horniman Museum and Gardens

   The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style.

   2.8 km · museum in Forest Hill, London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Alfege Church, Greenwich

   St Alfege Church is an Anglican church in the centre of Greenwich, part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London.Of medieval origin, it reputedly marks the site where Alfege, Archbishop of Canterbury, was martyred in 1012. The present building was constructed in 1712–1714 to the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor following the collapse of the medieval church.

   4 km · church in Royal Borough of Greenwich, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Peckham Rye

   Peckham Rye is an open space and road in the London Borough of Southwark, London, England. The roughly triangular open space lies to the south of Peckham and consists of two contiguous areas, Peckham Rye Common to the north and Peckham Rye Park to the south.

   3.2 km · park in Peckham, London · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Nunhead Cemetery

   Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England. It is perhaps the least famous and celebrated of them.

   3.1 km · cemetery in Nunhead, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Fan Museum

   The Fan Museum, which opened in 1991, is the world's first museum dedicated to the preservation and display of hand fans. It is located within two grade II* listed houses that were built in 1721 within the Greenwich World Heritage Site on Croom's Hill in southeast London, England.

   3.8 km · museum in London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Shepherd Gate Clock

   The Shepherd Gate Clock is mounted on the wall outside the gate of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich building in Greenwich, Greater London. The clock, an early example of an electrically connected clock system, was a sympathetic clock mechanism controlled by electric pulses transmitted by a motor clock inside the main building.

   3.9 km · clock outside the Royal Greenwich Observatory · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Beckenham Place Park

   Beckenham Place Park is a large park located near Beckenham in the London Borough of Lewisham. It lies close to the border with the London Borough of Bromley, and was formerly divided between the two boroughs.

   3.3 km · park in London Borough of Lewisham, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St. Paul's, Deptford

    St Paul's, Deptford, is one of London's finest Baroque parish churches, cited as "one of the most moving C18 churches in London" in the Buildings of England series. It was designed by gentleman architect Thomas Archer and built between 1712 and 1730 in Deptford, which was then a settlement in Kent but is now part of South East London.

    3.8 km · historic church in Deptford, London, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Catford

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 31 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 35 km · London Stansted (STN), 52 km

Stations

New Cross Gate railway station, 3.6 km · Lewisham DLR station, 2.3 km · New Cross railway station, 3.6 km · Greenwich, 3.7 km · Elverson Road, 2.6 km

• London, Essex → Catford

  10 km · quickest by road, 51 min · £1–1.5
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• Luton, Luton → Catford

  56 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–11
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Catford

  173 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £21–27
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