
Kew Gardens Rail Station
- River
- Peaks nearby
- 25
- highest 92m
- Walking routes
- 21
- within 10 miles
What's on the doorstep
Walking distances are estimates from the straight-line distance and the type of ground, not a measured route. Check a map before you set off.
About Kew Gardens Rail Station
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. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.
Hills, trails and walks from the platform
Walking distances are estimates from the straight-line distance and the type of ground, not a measured route. Check a map before you set off.
| King Henry VIII Mound | 58m | 2.3 mi (about 3 to 3.5 mi on foot) |
| Hanger Hill | 65m | 3.3 mi (about 4.5 to 5 mi on foot) |
| Putney Heath | 60m | 3.4 mi (about 4.5 to 5 mi on foot) |
| Wimbledon Common | 55m | 4.0 mi (about 5 to 6 mi on foot) |
| The Vale (Heston) | 35m | 4.3 mi (about 5.5 to 6.5 mi on foot) |
| Thames Path ↗ | 213.5 mi | 0.4 mi |
Route data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL – coverage and route quality vary by area.
| Remarkable Trees at Kew ↗Local | 1.6 mi | 0.3 mi |
| Thames Path ↗National | 194.7 mi | 0.4 mi |
| Thames Path - northern bank ↗Regional | 29.5 mi | 0.5 mi |
| Thames Path Kew Gardens diverted due to bank collapse ↗ | 3.7 mi | 0.6 mi |
| Grand Union Canal Walk ↗Regional | 16.3 mi | 0.9 mi |







