Eltham

Worth seeing in and around Eltham

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
   Eltham Palace

   Eltham Palace is a large house at Eltham in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The house consists of the medieval great hall of a former royal residence, to which an Art Deco extension was added in the 1930s.

   500 m · historic house museum · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Charlton House

   Charlton House is a Jacobean mansion in Charlton, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich in south-east London. Built between 1607 and 1612, it is widely regarded as one of the finest and best-preserved examples of Jacobean domestic architecture in England, and the only complete Jacobean mansion surviving in Greater London following the destruction of Holland House during the Second World War.

   3.4 km · Grade I listed building in Royal Borough of Greenwich, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Severndroog Castle

   Severndroog Castle is a folly designed by architect Richard Jupp, with the first stone laid on 2 April 1784. While commonly referred to as a castle due to its turrets, it was built as a folly, as can be discerned by its small size and because it has never functioned as a castle.

   1.8 km · Grade II* listed folly in Oxleas Wood, on Shooter's Hill in the Royal Borough of Greenwich · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Lee railway station

   Lee station is a suburban station on Burnt Ash Hill in Lee in south-east London, England, between Hither Green and Mottingham on the Dartford loop. It is 7 miles 66 chains down the line from London Charing Cross.

   2.7 km · station on Burnt Ash Hill in Lee in south-east London, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Greenwich Cemetery

   Greenwich Cemetery is a cemetery in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London. It is situated on the southwestern slopes of Shooter's Hill, on the western side of the A205 South Circular, Well Hall Road, approximately halfway between Woolwich, to the north, and Eltham, to the south.

   2.1 km · cemetery in Greenwich, England · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Sutcliffe Park

   Sutcliffe Park is a 16.7-hectare public park in Eltham in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London. It is located west of Eltham town centre, east of Lee Green, north of Horn Park and south of Kidbrooke.

   1.7 km · public park in Eltham in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Grove Park Cemetery

   Grove Park Cemetery is a cemetery in Chinbrook, Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham, that opened in 1935.

   3.1 km · cemetery in Lewisham, London · Wikipedia
8. 08
   South African War Memorial

   The Boer War Memorial in Woolwich is opposite the Royal Artillery Barracks on Grand Depot Road in Woolwich. The memorial marks the deaths of the 18 soldiers of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the Second Boer War.

   3.8 km · war memorial in Woolwich, London · Wikipedia
9. 09
   St John the Evangelist's Church

   St John's Blackheath is an all age Anglican church in the Vanbrugh Park area of Blackheath, part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London, England. Built in the 1850s to the design of architect Arthur Ashpitel, it provided "an important visual and spiritual focus" to a rapidly growing high-class residential area.

   3.6 km · church in Blackheath, London · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Woolwich Common

    Woolwich Common is a common in Woolwich in southeast London, England. It is partly used as military land and partly as an urban park.

    2.8 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Eltham

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 36 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 37 km · London Stansted (STN), 50 km

Stations

Elmstead Woods railway station, 3.8 km · Blackheath railway station, 3.4 km · Welling railway station, 3.8 km · Falconwood railway station, 2.1 km · Kidbrooke railway station, 2.1 km

• London, Essex → Eltham

  14 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £1.5–2
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• Luton, Luton → Eltham

  58 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £8–10
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Eltham

  176 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £20–27
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