Views

The best views in London: free roof gardens and galleries in the City, hills the law forbids anyone to build across, decks you pay to go up, and bars worth the lift.

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Horniman Museum and Gardens

A bandstand on a Forest Hill slope, with the whole city along the horizon.

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The gardens fall away north from the museum and the terrace by the bandstand gives one of the clearest long views in south London: the City cluster and the Shard on the skyline, Canary Wharf to the right of them, and the North Downs behind your shoulder. The gardens are free and open every day whether or not you go into the museum.

Where
100 London Road, Forest Hill, SE23 3PQ
Nearest station
Forest Hill · 9 min walk

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