Attraction
Chelsea Physic Garden
Historic botanical garden founded in 1673 to cultivate medicinal plants.
📍 66 Royal Hospital Road, London Chelsea Manor & Royal Hospital
About
A four-acre physic garden established in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants used as medicines. Among the oldest botanical gardens in Britain, it features the oldest European rock garden devoted to alpine and Mediterranean plants, with the largest fruiting olive tree in Britain and unusual outdoor grapefruit growing. Grade I listed and opened to the public in 1983.
Things to do here
Explore the historic botanical gardensView alpine and Mediterranean plants in the rock gardenSee the oldest olive tree and grapefruit growing in Britain
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Getting there
Stations
Sloane Square · 12 min walk
CircleDistrict
South Kensington · 17 min walk
CircleDistrictPiccadilly
Battersea Power Station · 19 min walk
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Buses
170
Roehampton · Southfields · Earlsfield · Lavender Hill · Victoria
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