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Ashampstead

Ashampstead is a small village and civil parish in the rural area between Reading, Newbury and Streatley in Berkshire, England.

The place

Ashampstead is a small village and civil parish in the rural area between Reading, Newbury and Streatley in Berkshire, England. The parish population is about 400, occupying some 150 dwellings.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ashampstead

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hampstead Norris Castle

    Hampstead Norreys Castle was a Norman castle in the village of Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire, England.

    3.6 km · Norman castle in Hampstead Norris, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Living Rainforest

    The Living Rainforest is an indoor greenhouse tropical rainforest located in Hampstead Norreys in Berkshire, England. It is an ecological centre, educational centre and visitor attraction consisting of three glasshouses, operated and run by the Trust for Sustainable Living.

    2.3 km · zoo in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Yattendon Castle

    Yattendon Castle was a fortified manor house located in the civil parish of Yattendon, in the hundred of Faircross, in the English county of Berkshire.

    2.7 km · remains of a fortified manor house in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Bell Inn

    The Bell Inn is a pub at the village of Aldworth, in the English county of West Berkshire. It won CAMRA's National Pub of the Year in 1990, and received the accolade again for 2019.

    2.7 km · Grade II listed public house at Aldworth, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Holies Down

    Holies Down is a 5.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Streatley in Berkshire. It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is part of the Holies section of the Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down National Trust property.

    4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ashampstead

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 51 km · London Luton (LTN), 71 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 79 km
Stations
Hampstead Norris railway station, 3.7 km
  • London → Ashampstead
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Ashampstead
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £10–13
  • Bristol → Ashampstead
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ashampstead

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ashampstead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    90 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    244 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    463 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    524 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    560 km

If you know how people move in Ashampstead – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ashampstead

Ashampstead is 16 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.