Retreat Apartment,
Richmond upon Thames, London

The Retreat Apartment is a modern serviced apartment in Richmond that is housed within a gated development.

Set just off Richmond Green, the apartment enjoys the peaceful ambience of the nearby River Thames, and the area has a good assortment of pubs and restaurants. Train services from Richmond station are a few minutes walk away for connections to London Waterloo and central London.

The apartment features a comfortable living room complete with Freeview TV channels and a DVD player, a well-equipped kitchen, bathroom and a double bedroom, ideal for those business travellers who require furnished, short or medium-term accommodation.

This self-catering apartment also has complimentary wireless broadband and a secure, on-site parking space.

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London is the capital of England and of the United Kingdom. It was established as a civilian town by the Romans about seven years after the invasion of AD43; however, there is evidence of prehistoric settlement in London dating from at least a thousand years before that. The name Londinium is thought to be pre-Celtic in origin and although there has been no academic consensus, it probably means "the flowing river".

During London's 2,000 years of recorded history, it has experienced plague, devastating fire, civil war and two world wars, yet it has grown to become one of the most important business, financial and cultural capitals in the world.

The city is a major tourist destination, with four world heritage sites and numerous iconic landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey and the London Eye amongst its many attractions, along with famous institutions such as the British Museum and the National Gallery.

London is made up of 32 boroughs, plus the City of London borough, and about 22 per cent of London's population were born outside of the UK, which is what makes it such an ethnically-mixed and culturally-diverse city.

Travel around London on public transport is easy and frequent. The London Underground (more commonly known as "The Tube") serves 275 stations and there are hundreds of bus routes serving the city and suburban areas. London has five main train stations:-Waterloo, Victoria, St. Pancras, Paddington and Euston, with trains running to all of Britain's major cities. St Pancras station is also the terminus for the Eurostar train to Paris.

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