Chalvey

Worth seeing in and around Chalvey

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
   Windsor Castle

   Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about 25 miles west of central London. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.

   2.6 km · historic castle, royal residence at Windsor in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   St George's Chapel, Windsor

   St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a royal peculiar, and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter.

   2.6 km · place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Leonardo's horse

   Leonardo's Horse ) is a project for a bronze sculpture that was commissioned from Leonardo da Vinci in 1482 by the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro, but never completed. It was intended to be the largest equestrian statue in the world, a monument to the duke's father Francesco Sforza.

   2.6 km · unexecuted sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Frogmore 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
5. 05
   40-foot telescope

   William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. It used a 48-inch diameter primary mirror with a 40-foot-long focal length.

   1 km · reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Frogmore Cottage

   Frogmore Cottage is a historic Grade II listed home on the Frogmore estate, which is part of Home Park in Windsor, England. The cottage was described as a 5,089 sq ft, five bedroom and nursery, four bathroom single-residence house in 2020.

   3.5 km · building in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Royal Burial Ground

   The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British royal family. Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

   3.7 km · cemetery used by the British Royal Family, surrounds the Royal Mausoleum on the Frogmore Estate · Wikipedia
8. 08
   King George VI Memorial Chapel

   The King George VI Memorial Chapel is part of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England. It was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for herself and her family, and was completed in 1969.

   2.6 km · burial place of King George VI of the United Kingdom and his immediate family, located in the St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
9. 09
   The Royal Mausoleum

   The Royal Mausoleum is a mausoleum for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert. It is located on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire, England.

   3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
10. 10
    1992 Windsor Castle fire

    On 20 November 1992, a major fire broke out in Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of the British monarch. Beginning in the Queen's Private Chapel, it spread rapidly through the State Apartments and became one of the largest peacetime fire‑fighting operations in modern British history.

    2.5 km · fire at historic royal castle · Wikipedia

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Getting to Chalvey

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 11 km · London Luton (LTN), 44 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 50 km

Stations

Slough railway station, 1.4 km · Burnham railway station, 3.1 km · Windsor & Eton Central railway station, 2.6 km · Windsor & Eton Riverside railway station, 2.3 km · Datchet railway station, 3.4 km

• London → Chalvey

  33 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · £3.5–4.5
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• Luton, Luton → Chalvey

  43 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £6–7
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• London, Essex → Chalvey

  33 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · £3.5–4.5
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