Pembroke Lodge
A Grade II listed Georgian mansion at the highest point of Richmond Park, with tea rooms and gardens looking west over the Thames Valley.
- Cafe
- Price: ££ · Mid-range
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Did you know
The house began in 1754 as a one-room cottage for a molecatcher, and later became the childhood home of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, who lived here from 1876 to 1894.
Local tip
The Butler's Pantry tea room is open daily from 9am until 5.30pm, or 30 minutes before the park gates close if earlier, except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with self-service and no booking. A separate kiosk serves drinks and snacks, and there is free parking beside the Lodge.
Famous dishes
Finding it
- Address
- Richmond Park, Richmond, London TW10 5HX
- Nearest station
- St Margarets (London) (National Rail), 2339 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- King Henry's MoundA small hill in the Pembroke Lodge gardens of Richmond Park with a telescope aimed down a protected, tree-framed sightline to St Paul's Cathedral, more than ten miles away.
- Richmond Hill View and Terrace GardensA curving view of the Thames and Petersham Meadows from the Terrace viewing platform at the top of Richmond Hill, above sloping formal Terrace Gardens with a cafe.
- Ham HouseA rare, largely unaltered 17th-century mansion on the Thames at Richmond, built in 1610 and transformed into an opulent Stuart-era home by Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Dysart, and her husband the Duke of Lauderdale.
- Richmond ParkLondon's largest Royal Park: more than 2,000 acres of grassland and ancient woodland where herds of red and fallow deer roam, with ridge-top views towards St Paul's from King Henry's Mound.