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Streets, squares, mews and lanes. The most charming streetscapes in London. Some well known, some hidden gems.
A row of cottages and a pub on the lane that ran out of Richmond Palace to the Thames.
Lanes & alleys
The lane leaves the north-west corner of Richmond Green and drops to the towpath along what was the palace's edge, which is where its name comes from and why it bends the way it does rather than running straight. The cottages on the north side and the White Swan partway down are the reason people walk it.
At the bottom, where the lane meets the river, is Asgill House, a Palladian villa of the 1760s built as a summer retreat for a Lord Mayor of London on ground that had been part of the palace. In the 1840s the viaduct carrying the approach to Richmond Railway Bridge was driven across the top of the lane, which is why you pass under brick arches on the way down to a seventeenth-century riverside.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.