What are nice day trips from London?
Short answer
Windsor, Gravesend, Chatham and Little Parndon are some potential day trips within 50 km of London. Braintree, Clacton-on-Sea, Rainham and Cranbrook are within 100 km of London. Crewkerne, Great Malvern, Lichfield and Stamford are within 200 km of London by train. We list 48 places below, including 35 old-world towns (Royal Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge), 13 lake or river towns (Godalming and Colnbrook), 10 market towns (High Wycombe and Brentwood) and 5 coastal towns (Bexhill-on-Sea and Lydd). More below.
Within 50 km 28 places
Within 100 km 13 places
By train, within 200 km 7 places
Places with a railway station within a 10-minute drive. Each one links to public-transport directions from London, so you can check the route and journey time.
Lichfield
Birthplace of Samuel Johnson — who compiled the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language — and home to a three-spired medieval cathedral, Lichf…
Great Malvern
At the foot of the Malvern Hills — a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Worcestershire — Great Malvern grew from an 11th-century Benedictine pr…
Christchurch
Smugglers worked the rivers Avon and Stour through much of the 18th and 19th centuries in this Dorset coast town, founded in the 7th century at the confluenc…
Stamford
This walkable Lincolnshire market town with five medieval parish churches, a centre dense with listed stone and timber-framed buildings from the 17th and 18t…
Tamworth
Walkable Staffordshire market town north-east of Birmingham, Tamworth sits at the confluence of the River Tame and carries a dense concentration of listed hi…
