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Golders Green

Golders Green is a suburb in the London Borough of Barnet in north West London, 5.6 miles (9 km) northwest of Charing Cross.

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The place

Golders Green is a suburb in the London Borough of Barnet in north West London, 5.6 miles (9 km) northwest of Charing Cross. Its historical origins lie in a medieval small suburban linear settlement that was sited near a farm and public grazing area green. The bulk of Golders Green forms a late Victorian/early Edwardian suburb centered on a commercial crossroads, the rest being of a later build.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Golders Green

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
    Middlesex University

    Middlesex University, branded as Middlesex University London, is a public research university based in Hendon, northwest London, England. The university also has campuses in Dubai and Mauritius.

    3.1 km · university in London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hampstead Heath

    Hampstead Heath is an ancient heath in London, spanning 320 hectares. This grassy public space sits astride a sandy ridge, one of the highest points in London, running from Hampstead to Highgate, which rests on a band of London Clay.

    2.6 km · park in Camden and Barnet in London, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Freud Museum London

    The Freud Museum in London is a museum dedicated to Sigmund Freud, located in the house where Freud lived with his family during the last year of his life. In 1938, after escaping Nazi annexation of Austria he came to London via Paris and stayed for a short while at 39 Elsworthy Road before moving to 20 Maresfield Gardens, where the museum is situated.

    3 km · historic house museum in London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kenwood House

    Kenwood House is a stately home in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath. The present house, built in the late 17th century, was remodelled in the 18th century for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield by Scottish architect Robert Adam, serving as a residence for the Earls of Mansfield until the 20th century.

    1.7 km · art museum and historic house in Hampstead, London · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

    The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, commonly shortened to Central, is a drama school in London, England. It was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906 as the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students.

    3.5 km · public drama school and conservatoire at the University of London · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parliament Hill

    Parliament Hill is an area of open parkland in the south-east corner of Hampstead Heath in north-west London. The hill, which is 98 metres high, is notable for its views of the capital's skyline.

    2.7 km · hill and area of open parkland in the south-east corner of Hampstead Heath, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tomb of Karl Marx

    The Tomb of Karl Marx is in the Eastern cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, North London, England. It is the burial site of Karl Marx, his wife Jenny von Westphalen, and other members of Marx's family, including his daughter Eleanor Marx.

    3.4 km · tomb in Highgate Cemetery in London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Isokon building

    Isokon Flats, also known as Lawn Road Flats and the Isokon building, on Lawn Road, Belsize Park in the London Borough of Camden, is a reinforced-concrete block of 36 flats, designed by Canadian engineer Wells Coates for Molly and Jack Pritchard.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed building in London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kiln Theatre

    The Kiln Theatre is a theatre located in Kilburn, in the London Borough of Brent, England. Since 1980, the theatre has presented a wide range of plays reflecting the cultural diversity of the area, as well as new writing, political work and verbatim reconstructions of public inquiries.

    3.4 km · theatre and cinema in Kilburn, Brent, London, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Keats House

    Keats House is a writer's house museum in what was once the home of the Romantic poet John Keats. It is in Keats Grove, Hampstead, in inner north London.

    2.6 km · writer's house museum in Keats Grove, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Golders Green

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 22 km · London Luton (LTN), 36 km · London Stansted (STN), 45 km
Stations
Swiss Cottage tube station, 3.6 km · Kilburn tube station, 3.1 km · Finchley Road tube station, 3 km · West Hampstead tube station, 3 km · Belsize Park tube station, 3.2 km
  • London → Golders Green
    9 km · quickest by road, 45 min · £1–1.5
  • London, Essex → Golders Green
    9 km · quickest by road, 45 min · £1–1.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Golders Green
    154 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £16–22
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Golders Green

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Golders Green. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.

From Wikivoyage: London/Soho, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    125 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    398 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    552 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    587 km

If you know how people move in Golders Green – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Golders Green

Golders Green is 7 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hampsteadarea of north London, England2.5 km
  • Hendonsuburb situated in the London Borough of Barnet2.5 km
  • Highgatedistrict of the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington in North London, England3.3 km
  • Finchleyarea of North London, England in the London Borough of Barnet2.8 km
  • West Hampsteadarea in the London Borough of Camden2.2 km
  • East Finchleyarea in north London, in the London Borough of Barnet2.2 km