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Bisham

Bisham is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England.

Bisham
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The place

Bisham is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. The village is on the River Thames, around one mile (1.6 km) south of Marlow in the neighbouring county of Buckinghamshire, and around three miles (5 km) northwest of Maidenhead. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 1,099, down from 1,149 at the 2001 Census. Bisham is home to one of Sport England's National Sports Centres.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bisham

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
    Berkshire College of Agriculture

    Berkshire College of Agriculture is a further education agricultural college at Hall Place in Burchetts Green, Maidenhead, Berkshire. It was founded in 1949, as the Berkshire Institute of Agriculture.

    3.6 km · college in Windsor and Maidenhead, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Danesfield House

    Danesfield House in Medmenham, near Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills is a former country house now used as a hotel and spa. The house stands on a plateau which shelves steeply down to the River Thames to the south.

    3.4 km · country house in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pound Lane Cricket Ground

    Pound Lane is a cricket ground in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1909, when Buckinghamshire played Dorset in the Minor Counties Championship.

    1.1 km · cricket ground in Marlow, Buckinghamshire · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Harleyford Manor

    Harleyford Manor is a country house near Marlow in Buckinghamshire. The house is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England, and its gardens are also listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed manor house in Wycombe, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Westhorpe House

    Westhorpe House is a 31,937 square feet Grade II listed building near Little Marlow which was the home of Maria Nugent and Field marshal Sir George Nugent. The Main House is 20,535 square feet and the Coach House is 4,027 square feet.

    2.8 km · house in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Remnantz

    Remnantz is a country house in Marlow in Buckinghamshire. It is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.

    1.4 km · building in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Temple Footbridge

    Temple Footbridge is a pedestrian only bridge near Hurley, Berkshire across the River Thames in England. It connects the Buckinghamshire and Berkshire banks.

    1.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Marlow Town Hall

    Marlow Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. The structure, which is used as a cinema, is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.6 km · municipal building in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Marlow Place

    Marlow Place is a country house in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade I listed building.

    1.3 km · Grade I listed building in Wycombe, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Roman Church Of St Peters

    St Peter's Church is a Catholic parish church in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It started from a mission church founded in 1844 and was completed in 1846.

    1.3 km · church building in Marlow, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Bisham

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 24 km · London Luton (LTN), 45 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 61 km
Stations
Cookham railway station, 3.7 km · Marlow railway station, 1.6 km
  • Luton, Luton → Bisham
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
  • London → Bisham
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Bisham
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £5–7
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bisham

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 Bisham. 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

    104 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    274 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    434 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 Bisham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bisham

Bisham is 18 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Marlowtown and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England1.1 km
  • Marlow Bottomvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, UK3.6 km
  • Little Marlowvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Burchetts Greenvillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom4 km
  • Great Marlowcivil parish in Buckinghamshire, England3.7 km
  • Danesfieldhamlet in Buckinghamshire, England3.2 km