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Charvil

Charvil is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

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The place

Charvil is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. The village is 5 miles from Reading on the A4 road to Maidenhead, between Sonning and Twyford. The 2021 Census recorded the parish's population as 3,158. The area was mostly farmland until the 1950s.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Charvil

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
    The Deanery

    Deanery Garden is an Arts and Crafts style house and garden in Sonning, Berkshire, England. The house was designed and built by architect Edwin Lutyens between 1899 and 1901.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed country house in Sonning, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sonning Lane

    Sonning Lane is a cricket and hockey ground in Sonning near Reading, Berkshire, England. It is located on a road called Sonning Lane between the A4 road and the village of Sonning, hence the name.

    2.1 km · hockey and cricket ground in Sonning, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St James, Ruscombe

    The Church of St James the Great is a Church of England parish church in Ruscombe, Berkshire, England. It is a grade I listed building.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed church in Ruscombe, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wargrave War Memorial

    Wargrave War Memorial is First World War memorial in the village of Wargrave in Berkshire, south-eastern England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was unveiled in 1922 and is today a grade II listed building.

    2.8 km · war memorial in Wargrave, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sonning Backwater Bridges

    Sonning Backwater Bridges are the road bridges across the first two of three branches of the Thames at Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire, England. Built in 1986 to replace older wooden structures, one bridge spans a main weir stream – traditionally named the backwater – and the other spans the splayed under-mill outlets from the millrace of the island known as Sonning Eye.

    2.1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sonning Bridge

    Sonning Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. It links Sonning with Sonning Eye and crosses the Thames on the reach above Shiplake Lock, just short of Sonning Lock.

    2 km · grade II listed deck arch bridge in Sonning Eye, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Andrew's Church, Sonning

    St Andrew's Church is Church of England parish church in a central position in the village of Sonning, close to the River Thames, in the English county of Berkshire. It is notable for its fine array of church monuments and for being the successor of an Anglo-Saxon Cathedral.

    1.9 km · church in Sonning, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Loddon Nature Reserve

    Loddon Nature Reserve is a 14-hectare nature reserve on the edge of the village of Twyford in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

    1 km · park · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Shiplake Railway Bridge

    Shiplake Railway Bridge carries the Henley Branch Line to Henley-on-Thames, England across the River Thames, connecting Shiplake in Oxfordshire with Wargrave in Berkshire. It crosses the river just downstream of Shiplake Lock on the reach above Marsh Lock.

    2.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Lavells Lake

    Lavells Lake is a 12.5-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Woodley, a suburb of Reading in Berkshire. It is owned by Wokingham District Council and managed by the council and The Friends of Lavell's Lake.

    2.9 km · park · 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 Charvil

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 29 km · London Luton (LTN), 57 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 61 km
Stations
Twyford railway station, 1.6 km · Wargrave railway station, 2.5 km · Shiplake railway station, 3.9 km
  • London → Charvil
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Charvil
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–10
  • London, Essex → Charvil
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Charvil

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 Charvil. 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

    92 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    265 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    535 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    571 km

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

Around it

Next door to Charvil

Charvil is 6 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Twyfordvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, UK1.3 km
  • Wargravevillage and civil parish in Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Woodleytown and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Ruscombevillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Hurstvillage in Berkshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Shiplakevillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.2 km