Admire the ten storied Chinese Pagoda standing 163 feet high, and many other interesting features in the 18th Century garden, which was laid out by Capability Brown. Kew s latest development is the creation of a Millennium Seed Bank. The aim is to collect seeds of all British flora by the end of the year 2000, and 10 percent of the world s flowering plants by 2010. This is a safeguard for those species growing in the wild which are becoming endangered. All year daily, Garden from 09.30 closing times vary, from 16.00 in winter to 19.30 in summer.
Conservatories close earlier.
Many of our engines are in steam every weekend. Only four miles from Hyde Park Corner, Fulham Palace, London's best kept secret, takes you back to a Fulham of fields and market gardens. This historic residence of the Bishop of London is well worth a visit. Edward Linley Sambourne a leading Punch cartoonist of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Distances shown are in a direct line.