Checkendon
Checkendon is a village and civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about 9 miles (14 km) north west of Reading in Berkshire on a mid-height swathe of the Chilterns.
Checkendon is a village and civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about 9 miles (14 km) north west of Reading in Berkshire on a mid-height swathe of the Chilterns.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Checkendon
3 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.
- 01Braziers Park
Braziers Park is a Grade II* country house and estate on the edge of Ipsden – a small village near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England – housing a secular intentional community and the School of Integrative Social Research. It has also been used as a film location for large- and small-budget films.
3 km · country house in Ipsden, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Peter and St Paul, Checkendon
St Peter and St Paul is the Church of England parish church of Checkendon, a village in Oxfordshire, England. Its parish is part of the Deanery of Henley in the Diocese of Oxford.
0 m · church in South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Bear, Oveys and Great Bottom Woods
Bear, Oveys and Great Bottom Woods is a 64.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. This beech woodland has more than 40 species of ground flora which is commonly associated with ancient woods in southern Britain, including broad-leaved helleborine, southern wood-rush, yellow archangel, enchanter's nightshade, goldilocks buttercup, woodruff and the moss Leucobryum glaucum.
3.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Checkendon
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 41 km · London Luton (LTN), 60 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 74 km
- Stations
- Chiltern Park Aerodrome, 3.9 km
- London → Checkendon63 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Checkendon57 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
- London, Essex → Checkendon63 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £7–9
- 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 Checkendon
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 Checkendon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe nearest major ferry port to Henley-on-thames is Harbour which is located next to the city of Portsmouth.
From Wikivoyage: Henley-on-Thames, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Checkendon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Checkendon
Checkendon is 11 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Ipsdenvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
- Highmoorvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.6 km