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Binfield Heath

Binfield Heath is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) south-southwest of Henley-on-Thames and 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) northeast of Reading on a southern knoll of the Chiltern Hills.

The place

Binfield Heath is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) south-southwest of Henley-on-Thames and 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) northeast of Reading on a southern knoll of the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 709. The village has a Congregational Church, ground for polo, Michelin star chef-run restaurant, and public house. 12 of its 294 homes are listed buildings.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Binfield Heath

10 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
    Crowsley Park

    Crowsley Park is a 160-acre country estate in South Oxfordshire, central-southern England, owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

    2 km · grade II listed English country house in Binfield Heath, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Deanery

    Deanery Garden is an Arts and Crafts style house and garden in Sonning, Berkshire, England. The house was designed and built by architect Edwin Lutyens between 1899 and 1901.

    4 km · Grade I listed country house in Sonning, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Park Place

    Park Place is a historic Grade II Listed country house and gardens in the civil parish of Remenham in Berkshire, England, set in large grounds above the River Thames near Henley, Oxfordshire.

    3.9 km · country house and gardens in the civil parish of Remenham in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Conway's Bridge

    Conway's Bridge is an ornamental rustic arched stone structure close to the River Thames on the estate of Park Place, Berkshire, England.

    3.5 km · bridge in Remenham, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kenton Theatre

    The Kenton Theatre is a theatre and Grade II listed building in the town of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.

    3.6 km · theatre in Henley-on-Thames, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shiplake Railway Bridge

    Shiplake Railway Bridge carries the Henley Branch Line to Henley-on-Thames, England across the River Thames, connecting Shiplake in Oxfordshire with Wargrave in Berkshire. It crosses the river just downstream of Shiplake Lock on the reach above Marsh Lock.

    3.3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Sonning Backwater Bridges

    Sonning Backwater Bridges are the road bridges across the first two of three branches of the Thames at Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire, England. Built in 1986 to replace older wooden structures, one bridge spans a main weir stream – traditionally named the backwater – and the other spans the splayed under-mill outlets from the millrace of the island known as Sonning Eye.

    3.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sonning Bridge

    Sonning Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. It links Sonning with Sonning Eye and crosses the Thames on the reach above Shiplake Lock, just short of Sonning Lock.

    3.8 km · grade II listed deck arch bridge in Sonning Eye, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Henley Bridge

    Henley Bridge is a road bridge built in 1786 over the River Thames, between Henley-on-Thames, in Oxfordshire, and Remenham, in Berkshire. The bridge has five elliptical stone arches, and links Hart Street in Henley with White Hill in Remenham.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed bridge in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    River and Rowing Museum

    The River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, was on a site at Mill Meadows by the River Thames. It had three main themes represented by major permanent galleries, the non-tidal River Thames, the international sport of rowing and the local town of Henley-on-Thames.

    3.2 km · Local museum in Henley-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom · 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 Binfield Heath

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 32 km · London Luton (LTN), 56 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 65 km
Stations
Wargrave railway station, 3.5 km · Shiplake railway station, 2.8 km · Henley-on-Thames railway station, 3.2 km
  • London → Binfield Heath
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Binfield Heath
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–10
  • London, Essex → Binfield Heath
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–8
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Binfield Heath

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 Binfield Heath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe nearest major ferry port to Henley-on-thames is Harbour which is located next to the city of Portsmouth.

From Wikivoyage: Henley-on-Thames, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    263 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    531 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    567 km

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

Around it

Next door to Binfield Heath

Binfield Heath is 7 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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