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

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.
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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.
- 01The 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 - 02Sonning 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 - 03Church 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 - 04Wargrave 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 - 05Sonning 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 - 06Sonning 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 - 07St 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 - 08Loddon 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 - 09Shiplake 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 - 10Lavells 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
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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 → Charvil53 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
- Luton, Luton → Charvil55 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–10
- London, Essex → Charvil53 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Get aroundThe local authority has published a cycle map, which shows off-road and low-traffic routes around the town.
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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