Where is the best view in London?

[vauxhallmum]

Yay! From the top the bus going across vauxhall bridge to victoria. quick..turn to the right!

 

[metalguru]

Yes, I do that journey a lot (especially since the Victoria Line is so often out of order between Brixton and Victoria)

Trust Wordsworth to stand on the wrong bridge - should have gone to Vauxhall:

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:

 

[Maggot]

top a teh ITN tower on S norwood hill, tis the best by far, don't go without an adult though

Where is this tower?

 

[Brother Mouzone]

From the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Park.

I agree!

Very nice at night.

 

[Meltingpot]

The view from the Angel pub in Rotherhithe whilst sitting facing the river with a pint in your hand..

Yeah, that is a nice one.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

From The greenwhich observatory aint bad either.

 

[rocketman]

London looks at its best when you have your back to it - or anywhere off the North Circular. Lovely place.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Springfield Park overlooking Walthamastow Marshes
Richmond Hill
Waterloo Bridge
Crystal Palarse Park

 

[DrRingDing]

The top of Tower 42

 

[sir.clip]

SE27.....

 

[DRINK?]

Haven't read this thread as interweb is creaky and spect someone has said it though King Henry VIII's Mound in Richmond park looking through to St Pauls and back across over the river, race course etc is a personal fav...

 

[Cid]

Clearly the view from Parliament hill... Anyone who thinks otherwise frankly a wrongun', and I knew there were a fuckload here - but this is far too many by half...

 

[brixtonvilla]

Clearly the view from Parliament hill... Anyone who thinks otherwise frankly a wrongun', and I knew there were a fuckload here - but this is far too many by half...

Saw that the other day. Utterly over-rated. Being green & close to the centre of town doesn't make it a good view.

 

[ska invita]

BUMP

My other favourite view of London was from Nunhead Reservoir - a massive covered reservoir next to Nunhead cemetry. It was a bit of a secret one as to get in you had to go up a path and then through a small hole in a fence, but lots of people knew about it and the view was unbeatable.
Then last year Thames Water went mad with extra fencing and now its completely off limits.

However there is a new petition to try and get it opened up. I know there are more important things happening in the world but please sign it! Open Nunhead Reservoir | Campaigns by You

TO: THAMES WATER
We want Thames Water to open Nunhead Reservoir to the public, so that everybody can enjoy the view and the open space. They can use some of the profit they make from their bill payers to supply bins and official entrances. Replant the trees they dug up and take down the ugly fence around the perimeter.

Why is this important?
Nunhead Reservoir has one of the best views in South London. It has been a much loved picnicking spot, place to relax and hang out with friends for many years, and deserves to be officially opened so that everybody can enjoy it. London is being sold off piece by piece to private owners for private interests, let's not let them take this much loved green space along with it.

view south

I wanted to post about it first time around but it was a place you had to keep a bit secret, exactly because if too many people went Thames would stop it.... to a certain extent it became a victim of its own success as word got around...

 

[ska invita]

oh and heres the fence Thames have put up on it

 

[RubyToogood]

oh and heres the fence Thames have put up on it

Is this the same place as the Aquarius Golf Course? If so, what's happened to the golf club?

 

[ska invita]

Is this the same place as the Aquarius Golf Course? If so, what's happened to the golf club?

its not - its a little north of Aquarius - both are covered reservoirs, but for some reason its okay to play golf on one, but the other is surrounded in razor wire

this map has 1. Nunhead Res 2. Aquarius

 

[ska invita]

Transpontine has done a thing about it
Transpontine: Whatever happened to Nunhead Reservoir? - public meeting

 

[Stanley Edwards]

My vote goes to Waterlow Park even if I haven't seen it for 13 years!

Second has to be Greenwhich from the other perspective.

Third is probably from the Moon.

 

[2hats]

From about 400km above?

 

[hash tag]

I want to go to Nunhead Resevoir now.
I would't say my favourite view, but a good view is to be had from the top of the Dome and Shooters Hill for that matter.

 

[willowmoon]

Parliament Hill on Hampstead heath. Or climb the Brockley path next to nunhead cemetery, feels like your on top of the world

 

[ska invita]

Parliament Hill on Hampstead heath. Or climb the Brockley path next to nunhead cemetery, feels like your on top of the world

That's where nunhead reservoir is! Cut through a hole in the fence at the top of Brockley path

 

[Orang Utan]

That's where nunhead reservoir is! Cut through a hole in the fence at the top of Brockley path

There was a hole in the fence at the bottom, wasn't there?
Very sad to read about it closure

 

[ska invita]

May be a few holes...there was one at the apex of the hill on brockley path... there is also potential access from the west side houses...but yeah the new fence is a tough one

 

[Orang Utan]

Someone needs to vandalize it.....

 

[hash tag]

Can anyone advise if the reservoir currently accessible?

 

[hash tag]

Anyone?

 

[Steel Icarus]

I don't know London very well but last time I was there in October I saw it from Crystal Palace, Greenwich Observatory and from the river at night. All different, all great.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Where is the best view in London?

From a plane climbing out of Heathrow, taking you somewhere better.


/tired of life.