Windmill Tearooms

Richmond, Kew & Hampton Court


Adjacent to Wimbledon Windmill, these tearooms can supply tea, caffeine and sustenance after legging it around Wimbledon Common; come for breakfast, pies, jacket potatoes, fried cod or baguettes. There's a kids menu too.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Richmond, Kew & Hampton Court attractions

1. Wimbledon Windmill

0.03 MILES

One of London's few surviving windmills, this fine smock mill (octagonal-shaped with sloping weatherboarded sides) dates from 1817. It ceased operating in…

2. Wimbledon Common

0.47 MILES

Surging on into Putney Heath, Wimbledon Common blankets a staggering 460 hectares of southwest London. An astonishing expanse of open, wild and wooded…

3. Buddhapadipa Temple

0.67 MILES

Surrounded by trees in over 1.5 hectares of tranquil Wimbledon land, this delightful Thai Buddhist temple actively welcomes everyone. Accompanying its…

4. Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

0.81 MILES

This ace museum details the history of tennis – from its French precursor jeu de paume (which employed the open hand) to the supersonic serves of today's…

5. Caesar's Camp

0.92 MILES

On the southern side of Wimbledon Common, the misnamed Caesar’s Camp is what’s left of a roughly circular earthen fort built in the 5th century BC.

6. Isabella Plantation

1.88 MILES

Floral fans to Richmond Park should visit this 16-hectare plantation, a stunning woodland garden created after WWII, when the rhododendrons, azaleas and…

7. Putney & Barnes

2.04 MILES

Called Putelei in the Domesday Book of 1086, Putney is most famous as the starting point of the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Barnes is less well…

8. Barnes Old Cemetery

2.31 MILES

When it comes to atmospheric graveyards in the capital, Highgate in north London tends to dominate the headlines. But venture to Barnes Common in…