Chiswick

Worth seeing in and around Chiswick

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
   Kew Gardens

   Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London founded in 1759 that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens.

   2.6 km · botanical garden and world's largest collection of living plants in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Craven Cottage

   Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham F.C. since 1896. The ground's capacity is 28,107; the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall in 1938.

   3.1 km · football stadium in Fulham, London · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium

   Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, West London, Greater London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers Football Club, with a capacity of 18,439. In 1981, it became the first stadium in British professional football to have an artificial pitch of Omniturf installed.

   2.9 km · football stadium in London · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Brentford Community Stadium

   The Brentford Community Stadium, currently known as the Gtech Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Brentford, West London that is the home of Premier League football club Brentford. The stadium has a capacity of 17,250 and is suitable for use for both association football and rugby union matches.

   2 km · stadium in London, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

   Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff.

   2.8 km · government botanical research institute in the UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Hammersmith Bridge

   Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the River Thames in west London. It links the southern part of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, on the north side of the river, with Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, on the south side of the river.

   2.1 km · suspension bridge in London, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Griffin Park

   Griffin Park was a football ground in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow, England. It was the home ground of Brentford from its opening in September 1904 to August 2020.

   3 km · association football stadium in London · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Kew Palace

   Kew Palace is a British royal palace within the grounds of Kew Gardens on the banks of the River Thames. Originally a large complex, few elements of it survive.

   2.5 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Kew Bridge

   Kew Bridge is a wide-span bridge over the Tideway linking the London Boroughs of Richmond upon Thames and Hounslow. The present bridge, which was opened in 1903 as King Edward VII Bridge by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, was designed by John Wolfe-Barry and Cuthbert Arthur Brereton.

   1.9 km · bridge in London, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    University of West London

    The University of West London is a public research university in the England with campuses in Ealing, Brentford and Reading, Berkshire. The university has roots in 1860 when the Lady Byron School was founded, later Ealing College of Higher Education.

    3.6 km · university in Ealing, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Chiswick

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 14 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 38 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km

Stations

Acton Town tube station, 2 km · Barons Court tube station, 3.2 km · Turnham Green tube station, 700 m · Goldhawk Road tube station, 2.6 km · Ealing Common tube station, 3 km

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  44 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
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  9 km · quickest by road, 40 min · £1–1.5
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Chiswick

  157 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £18–24
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