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Burghfield

Burghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading.

Burghfield
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The place

Burghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading. Burghfield can trace its history back to before the Domesday Book, and was once home to three manors: Burghfield Regis, Burghfield Abbas, and Sheffield. Since the 1980s the population of Burghfield has nearly doubled with the construction of housing estates, making it a dormitory for Reading, Newbury, Basingstoke and the M4 corridor.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burghfield

6 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
    Burghfield Lock

    Burghfield Lock is a lock on the River Kennet at Burghfield in the English county of Berkshire. Burghfield Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer John Hore of Newbury, and this stretch of the river is now administered by the Canal & River Trust and known as the Kennet Navigation.

    2.6 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Garston Lock

    Garston Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal. It is near the M4 motorway and near Reading, Berkshire, England.

    2.6 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield/Theale, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wokefield Park

    Wokefield Park is an 18th-century country house, situated in the parish of Wokefield, near Mortimer, in the English county of Berkshire. It is currently run as an events venue.

    2.8 km · 18th-century country house in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of the Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church in Theale, Berkshire, in the Diocese of Oxford. It was completed in 1832 in the Early English style, influenced by Salisbury Cathedral.

    3.9 km · church in Theale, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Calcot Park

    Calcot Park is a country house, estate, and golf club in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated between Calcot and Tilehurst, suburbs of the town of Reading, and within the civil parish of Tilehurst.

    3.9 km · country house in Tilehurst, West Berkshire, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Matthew's

    St Matthew's Church is a Church of England parish church located in the suburb of Southcote in Reading, Berkshire. Dedicated to Matthew the Apostle, it is administered as part of the Reading Deanery in the Diocese of Oxford.

    4 km · church in Reading · 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 Burghfield

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 41 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 66 km · London Luton (LTN), 69 km
Stations
Theale railway station, 3.3 km · Reading Green Park railway station, 3.3 km
  • London → Burghfield
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Burghfield
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Burghfield
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burghfield

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe local authority has published a cycle map, which shows off-road and low-traffic routes around the town.

From Wikivoyage: Reading (England), 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

    82 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    254 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    458 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    536 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    572 km

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

Around it

Next door to Burghfield

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

  • Thealevillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Wokefieldhamlet and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Sulhamsteadvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Ufton Nervetvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Holybrookcivil parish in Berkshire of England3.2 km
  • Calcotvillage in Berkshire, United Kingdom3.4 km