Car: not necessary
Richmond has an abundance of shops, restaurants, cafes, and lots more including Richmond Theatre, swimming pool, golf courses, horse riding in Richmond park and lovely walks along the river Thames.
Further afield, Richmond is ideally located for exploring places like Windsor and Warwick Castles, Stonehenge and Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Richmond is served by the London Underground trains as well as overground trains taking you straight into the city centre. The centre of London is only a 20 minute train ride and Heathrow airport is only a 20-minute drive away.
Richmond high street and Underground and Train station 3 minute walk away.
Nearby Kew is also home to the Royal Botanical Kew Gardens and the Public Records Office with records treasures from The National Archives. You can find landmarks of a thousand years of British history ranging from the Doomsday book to Henry VIII to Oliver Cromwell to Bonnie Prince Charlie, Samuel Pepys to Olaudah Equiano, with records revealing many aspects of British history and the wider world.
You can take boat rides along the river Thames to
Hampton Court Palace which dates back to Henry the 8th. A longer boat ride in the opposite direction will take you all the way to Westminster.
