Kew

Kew is a nice, but very upper class neighbourhood close to Richmond. The area is mostly known for enormous botanical gardens, but the small village around it is nice and worth a visit. When I visited here, there were stalls on the street selling delicious pastries, flowers etc. They also had a few nice looking cafés and restaurants.

Parks:

• Kew is best known for Kew Gardens, an enormous area of botanical
  
  gardens. Entrance to the gardens is fairly expensive, but you should definitely visit there at least once. I reckon the best time to visit is spring, since the place is full of exotic flowers, which are in bloom then. Of course the greenhouses have some of those exotic plants, cactuses etc. around the year. Plants are not the only things to see here. There are small cottages, Kew Palace with its royal history, treetop-walkway, lake, Japanese pagoda and rock garden, badger caves and changing exhibitions.

Areas around Kew: Richmond, Isleworth, Brentford, Chiswick