Burnham

Worth seeing in and around Burnham

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
   Cliveden

   Cliveden is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire. The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern Hills close to the South Bucks villages of Taplow and Burnham.

   3 km · country house in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Maidenhead Railway Bridge

   Maidenhead Railway Bridge, also known as Maidenhead Viaduct and The Sounding Arch, carries the Great Western Main Line over the River Thames between Maidenhead, Berkshire and Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a single structure of two tall, wide red-brick arches buttressed by two over-land smaller arches.

   2.9 km · railway bridge in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Hedsor House

   Hedsor House is an Italianate-style mansion in the United Kingdom, located in Hedsor in Buckinghamshire. Perched overlooking the River Thames, a manor house at Hedsor can be dated back to 1166 when the estate was owned by the de Hedsor Family.

   3.8 km · mansion in Hedsor in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Taplow Court

   Taplow Court is a Victorian house in the village of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, England. Its origins are an Elizabethan manor house, remodelled in the early 17th century.

   2 km · victorian house in Buckinghamshire, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Dorney Court

   Dorney Court is a Grade I listed early Tudor manor house, dating from around 1440, located in the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, England. It is owned and lived in by the Palmer family.

   3.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in South Bucks, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Cippenham Moat

   Cippenham Moat refers to the remains of a 13th Century Royal Palace created by King Henry III, located in the Cippenham suburb of Slough, in Berkshire. The area where the Palace once stood is still referred to and marked on maps as Cippenham Moat.

   3.9 km · remains of a 13th Century Royal Palace created by King Henry III · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Stanley Spencer Gallery

   The Stanley Spencer Gallery is an art museum in the South of England dedicated to the life and work of the artist Stanley Spencer. It was opened in 1962 and is located in the Thameside village of Cookham, Berkshire, where the artist was born and spent much of his life.

   3.9 km · art museum in Cookham, Berkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Maidenhead Bridge

   Maidenhead Bridge is a Grade I listed bridge carrying the A4 road over the River Thames between Maidenhead, Berkshire and Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach above Bray Lock, about half a mile below Boulter's Lock.

   2.8 km · Grade I listed bridge in Buckinghamshire, England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   York Road

   York Road is a football stadium in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. The home ground of Maidenhead United, it is acknowledged by The Football Association and FIFA to be the oldest continuously used senior association football ground in the world by the same club, having been home to the club since 1871.

   4 km · Football stadium in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Dorneywood

    Dorneywood is an 18th-century house near Burnham in southern Buckinghamshire. Originally a Georgian farmhouse, it has Victorian and later additions, and following a fire in 1910, was remodelled in 1919 by Sir Robert Lorimer.

    2.5 km · grade II listed English country house in South Bucks, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Burnham

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 16 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 54 km

Stations

Burnham railway station, 1.9 km · Taplow railway station, 1.6 km

• London → Burnham

  37 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £4–5
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• Luton, Luton → Burnham

  42 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £5–7
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• London, Essex → Burnham

  37 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £4–5
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