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About Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London founded in 1759 that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8. 5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens.
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Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
Good to know
- 🐕Dogs welcome
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Heritage
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Historic site
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km🚶Walking
28 signed routes nearby · 8 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Walking
Thames Path Kew Gardens diverted due to bank collapseWalking route
Capital Ring link to Richmond stationWalking route
Capital Ring Section 07 (alternate)Walking route
Brent River Park footpathWalking route
Capital Ring link to Hanwell stationWalking route
Thames Path - northern Bankpublic footpath · 54 m
Thames Path - northern Bankpublic footpath · 210 m
Thames Path - northern Bankpublic footpath · 66 m
🚴Cycling
127 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Cycling
LCN 33Cycling route
LCN 75Cycling route
LCN 33Cycling route
LCN 33 (spur)Cycling route
LCN 34 linkCycling route
Cycleway 34Cycling route
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