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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Richmond Hill

The only view in England that an Act of Parliament forbids anyone to build across.

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From the Terrace at the top of the hill the Thames bends away south-west through meadows towards Petersham and Ham with nothing in the frame that was not there two centuries ago, because the Richmond, Ham and Petersham Open Spaces Act of 1902 makes it illegal to put anything there. Reynolds painted it from a house on the hill and Turner painted it too. A public walk with benches runs the length of it.

Where
Richmond Hill, Richmond, TW10
Nearest station
Richmond · 16 min walk

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