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Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace

8.02km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

A residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. Today, the State Rooms are open to the public and displays many paintings and other objects from the Royal Collection.

Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum

8.49km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture, and also for the specimens collected by Charles Darwin.

Science Museum

Science Museum

8.65km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), the first jet engine, the Apollo 10 command module, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson's model of DNA, among many others.

Northala Fields

Northala Fields

8.69km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Northala Fields is a country park beside the A40 with four circular artificial hills. It was opened in 2008 and consists of four artificial hills standing next to the A40 Western Avenue, as well as several fishing lakes, a large field area a children's play area, and an adjacent café.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

8.77km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

World's largest museum of applied and decorative arts and design, as well as sculpture, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.

Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace

8.85km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Along with St James' Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many the King Henry VIII owned. The palace has two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque. It currently is open to the public displaying many of its original furnitures still in their original position, in addition to the works of art from the Royal Collection.

Hyde Park London

Hyde Park London

9.53km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Largest Royal Park in London, divided by the Serpentine and the Long Water lakes. The park covers 142 hectares (350 acres) and it is a popular spot for demonstrations, parades and other events.

The Sherlock Holmes Museum

The Sherlock Holmes Museum

10.72km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Situated in Baker Street, bearing the number 221B, this private museum is dedicated to the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The Georgian town house which the museum occupies was built in 1815 and was formerly used as a boarding house from 1860 to 1936. It covers the period of 1881 to 1904 when the stories describe Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson residing there as tenants of Mrs Hudson.

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

10.93km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Symbol and home of the monarchy of the United Kingdom. The palace has 775 rooms, and the garden is the largest private garden in London. The staterooms, used for official and state entertaining, are open to the public each year for most of August and September and on some days in winter and spring.

Stockley Park

Stockley Park

10.96km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Stockley Park is a unique place, where you’ll find a unique opportunity for your business. With excellent transport links, award-winning accommodation, and a host of amenities to help you create and enjoy the best environment for your business. The 350-acre site was transformed in the late 1980s into a commercial science park, now regarded as the foremost development on the ‘West London Corridor’.

Royal Academy of Arts

Royal Academy of Arts

11.31km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Institution to to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate. The Royal Academy has an important collection of books, archives and works of art accessible for research and display.

St James's Park

St James's Park

11.44km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

This 23-hectare (57-acre) park has a small lake, St James's Park Lake, with two islands, West Island and Duck Island, the latter named for the lake's collection of waterfowl. A resident colony of pelicans has been a feature of the park since a Russian ambassador donated them to Charles II in 1664.

London Zoo

London Zoo

11.68km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

World's oldest scientific zoo. Today, it houses a collection of 673 species of animals, with 19,289 individuals, making it one of the largest collections in the United Kingdom. The zoo was home to the only living quagga ever to be photographed and the it held a number of now extinct Tasmanian tigers.

Tate Britain

Tate Britain

11.7km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

National gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. Houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner. It is one of the largest museums in United Kingdom.

Churchill War Rooms

Churchill War Rooms

11.8km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The museum comprises the Cabinet War Rooms, a historic underground complex that housed a British government command centre throughout the Second World War, and the Churchill Museum, a biographical museum exploring the life of British statesman Winston Churchill.

Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

11.86km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Gothic abbey church which is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. It is the burial site of more than 3,300 persons, usually of prominence in British history (including at least sixteen monarchs, eight Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior).

Palace of Westminster

Palace of Westminster

12.05km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Meeting place for the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Contains over 1,100 rooms organised symmetrically around two series of courtyards and which has a floor area of 112,476 m2 (1,210,680 sq ft). Part of the New Palace's area of 3.24 hectares (8 acres) was reclaimed from the River Thames, which is the setting of its nearly 300-metre long (980 ft) facade, called the River Front.

The National Gallery

The National Gallery

12.06km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. It is among the most visited art museums in the world.

Big Ben

Big Ben

12.09km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

When completed in 1859, its clock was the largest and most accurate four-faced striking and chiming clock in the world. The tower stands 315 feet (96 m) tall, and the climb from ground level to the belfry is 334 steps. Its base is square, measuring 39 feet (12 m) on each side. Dials of the clock are 23 feet (7.0 m) in diameter.

Blanks House

Blanks House

12.12km from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The Blanks House, located at 201 Wall Street in Columbia, Louisiana, was built in about 1900. It has also been known as Adams House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Houses the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world. It consists of 132 hectares (330 acres) of gardens and botanical glasshouses. Its living collections includes some of the 27,000 taxa and the herbarium, which is one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens.