Isleworth

Worth seeing in and around Isleworth

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.

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

   Twickenham Stadium is a rugby union stadium in Twickenham, London, England. It is owned by the Rugby Football Union, the English rugby union governing body, which has its headquarters there.

   1.2 km · rugby stadium in London · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   3.1 km · government botanical research institute in the UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   3.4 km · association football stadium in London · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   3.5 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Strawberry Hill House

   Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham, London, built by Horace Walpole from 1749 onward. It is the prototypical example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture, and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.

   3.1 km · villa and house museum in Twickenham, London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Syon House

   Syon House is the west London residence of the Duke of Northumberland. A Grade I listed building, it lies within the 200-acre Syon Park, in the London Borough of Hounslow.

   2 km · house with park in Isleworth, west London, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Twickenham Stoop

   Twickenham Stoop is a stadium in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, close to Twickenham Stadium, England's national rugby union stadium. The Stoop is home to the Harlequins in Premiership Rugby and has a capacity of 14,800.

   1.8 km · sports stadium in London · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Richmond Bridge

   Richmond Bridge is an 18th-century stone arch bridge that crosses the River Thames at Richmond, connecting the two halves of the present-day London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It was designed by James Paine and Kenton Couse.

   2.2 km · 18th-century bridge in London, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Osterley House

    Osterley Park is a Georgian country estate in west London, which straddles the London boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. Originally dating from the 1570s, the estate contains a number of Grade I and II listed buildings, with the park listed as Grade II*.

    2.8 km · historic house museum in London · Wikipedia

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Getting to Isleworth

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 9 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 37 km · London Luton (LTN), 45 km

Stations

Hounslow West tube station, 3.5 km · Boston Manor tube station, 3.4 km · Hounslow Central tube station, 2.2 km · Osterley tube station, 2 km · Richmond station, 2.5 km

• Luton, Luton → Isleworth

  45 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–8
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• London, Essex → Isleworth

  15 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £1.5–2
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Isleworth

  155 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £18–23
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