Discover Richmond TW9 – London's Most Prized Riverside Town
Richmond TW9 is widely regarded as one of the most desirable places to live in the whole of Greater London, a postcode that combines the cultural and commercial life of a thriving riverside town with access to some of the largest areas of protected parkland and natural landscape available within any part of the capital. The town centre around George Street, the Quadrant, and the Hill Rise shopping streets offers an exceptional mix of independent restaurants, boutique retailers, wine bars, cafes, and cultural venues that give Richmond a commercial character far more varied and distinctive than most outer London postcodes of comparable size. Richmond Theatre on the Green, one of the most respected regional theatres in south west London with an ornate Victorian interior that was fully restored in the 1990s, provides live entertainment throughout the year and draws audiences from across the borough and beyond. Richmond Green, the large historic open space at the centre of the town, was historically connected to the former Richmond Palace that stood on its western edge, the palace where Elizabeth I died in 1603 and where several Tudor and Stuart monarchs kept court during the summer months.
Richmond Park, covering over 2,500 acres of ancient royal hunting ground immediately south west of the town centre, is the largest Royal Park in London and the largest enclosed space of any kind within the Greater London boundary, home to herds of free-roaming red and fallow deer and with views from the summit of Henry VIII's Mound that on a clear day extend all the way to St Paul's Cathedral. Richmond station at the foot of the hill provides both South Western Railway services to Waterloo and District line Underground services eastward through Gunnersbury and Chiswick toward central London, while the Overground also calls at Richmond connecting the postcode into the wider south London network. The Thames towpath running through TW9 connects Richmond westward to Twickenham, Teddington, and Hampton Court on one side and eastward to Kew Gardens and Chiswick on the other, making the riverside one of the most accessible and rewarding stretches of the Thames Path in the whole of west London. For passengers making Heathrow airport taxi bookings from Richmond, the A316 westbound provides one of the most direct and consistently fast road connections to the airport available from any inner London riverside postcode.
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