Brands Hill
Brands Hill is a village in Berkshire, England.
Brands Hill is a village in Berkshire, England. It is just on the outskirts of Colnbrook on Bath Road, adjacent to the Langley junction of the M4 motorway. It has grown from a few houses and has never been a historical village. The area is significant for its connecting through road, the Colnbrook bypass, which runs through the heart of Brands Hill, linking the M4, and Heathrow airport. Many of the inhabitants work at Heathrow Airport, and the Royal Mail Depot.
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Worth seeing in and around Brands Hill
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.
- 01Frogmore House
Frogmore House is a 17th-century English country house owned by the Crown Estate. It is a historic Grade I listed building.
3.8 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Windsor, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Adelaide Cottage
Adelaide Cottage is a house in Windsor Home Park just east of Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. Built in 1831 for Queen Adelaide, it was previously the home of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children.
3.5 km · historic house in Windsor Home Park · Wikipedia - 03Home Park
The Home Park, previously known as the Little Park, is a 2.65 km2 royal park which forms the private grounds of Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England. It lies mainly on the eastern side of the castle and is administered by the Crown Estate of the United Kingdom.
3.8 km · Royal park on the eastern side of Windsor Castle · Wikipedia - 04Frogmore Estate
Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. It comprises 33 acres, of primarily private gardens managed by the Crown Estate.
4 km · private gardens within the grounds of the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Longford River
The Longford River is an artificial waterway, a distributary designed to embellish a park, that diverts water 12 miles from the River Colne at Longford near Colnbrook in England, to Bushy Park and Hampton Court Palace. Its main outlet is to the reach above Molesey Lock with lesser pond outlet channels to that above Teddington Lock.
3.3 km · ground-level aqueduct in London and Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Albert Bridge
Albert Bridge is a road bridge in England running north–south and carrying the B3021 between Datchet and Old Windsor. It crosses the River Thames on the reach between Old Windsor Lock and Romney Lock.
3.2 km · bridge in Datchet in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07St Mary the Virgin Church, Langley
St Mary the Virgin Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Langley in Berkshire, England. It is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and is in the diocese of Oxford.
3 km · Grade I listed church in Langley, Slough, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Ditton Park
Ditton Park, Ditton Manor House or Ditton Park House was the manor house and private feudal demesne of the lord of the Manor of Ditton, and refers today to the rebuilt building and smaller grounds towards the edge of the town of Slough in England. A key feature is its centuries-old moat which extends to most of the adjoining lawns and garden.
1.9 km · country house in Datchet, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Queen Mother Reservoir
The Queen Mother Reservoir is a public water supply reservoir that lies between the M4 and the M25 to the west of London, close to Datchet. It is 475 acres in size or about 1 km in diameter - making it one of the largest inland areas of water in Southern England.
700 m · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Wraysbury Reservoir
Wraysbury Reservoir is a water supply reservoir for London, west of the M25, east of the village of Wraysbury, and under the western approach path of Heathrow's southern runway. Construction began in 1967 and was completed by W. & C. French in 1970 with a capacity of 34,000 million litres.
2.4 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brands Hill
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 6 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 45 km
- Stations
- Heathrow Terminal 5 station, 3.7 km · Langley railway station, 3.1 km · Iver railway station, 4 km · Terminal 5, London Heathrow Airport, 3.7 km · Wraysbury railway station, 2.5 km
- London → Brands Hill28 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £3–4
- Luton, Luton → Brands Hill44 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £5–7
- London, Essex → Brands Hill28 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £3–4
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No local-transport research exists yet for Brands Hill
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 Brands Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Brands Hill
Brands Hill is 18 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Datchetvillage in Berkshire, England, UK2.5 km
- Old Windsorvillage and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England3.9 km
- Hortonvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK700 m
- Wraysburyvillage located in Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom2.6 km
- Colnbrookvillage in Berkshire, UK1.3 km
- Poylevillage in Berkshire, England, UK2.2 km