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Colnbrook

Colnbrook is a village in the Slough district in Berkshire, England.

Colnbrook
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The place

Colnbrook is a village in the Slough district in Berkshire, England. It lies within the historic boundaries of Buckinghamshire, and straddles two distributaries of the Colne, the Colne Brook and Wraysbury River. These two streams have their confluence just to the southeast of the village. Colnbrook is centred 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the Slough town centre, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Windsor, and 19 miles (31 km) west of central London.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Colnbrook

9 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
    Longford River

    The Longford River is an artificial waterway, a distributary designed to embellish a park, that diverts water 12 miles from the River Colne at Longford near Colnbrook in England, to Bushy Park and Hampton Court Palace. Its main outlet is to the reach above Molesey Lock with lesser pond outlet channels to that above Teddington Lock.

    2 km · ground-level aqueduct in London and Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary the Virgin Church, Langley

    St Mary the Virgin Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Langley in Berkshire, England. It is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and is in the diocese of Oxford.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed church in Langley, Slough, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wraysbury Reservoir

    Wraysbury Reservoir is a water supply reservoir for London, west of the M25, east of the village of Wraysbury, and under the western approach path of Heathrow's southern runway. Construction began in 1967 and was completed by W. & C. French in 1970 with a capacity of 34,000 million litres.

    2.5 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stanwell Place

    Stanwell Place was a manor house and associated estate and tenant farms, located to the west of the village of Stanwell, Middlesex. During the early part of the 20th century parts of the estate were sold off to create a reservoir and a series of local small holdings.

    3.5 km · house in Middlesex, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Roman Catholic Church of St Catherine

    St Catherine's Church or St Catherine of Alexandria Church is a Catholic parish church in West Drayton, Borough of Hillingdon, London. It was built from 1868 to 1869 and designed by Thomas John Willson and Samuel Joseph Nicholl.

    3.9 km · catholic church building in Hillingdon, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wraysbury No 1 Gravel Pit

    Wraysbury No 1 Gravel Pit is a 58.0-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wraysbury in Berkshire. It is part of South West London Waterbodies Ramsar site, and Special Protection Area.

    3.3 km · scientific site of interest in Wraysbury, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ditton Park

    Ditton Park, Ditton Manor House or Ditton Park House was the manor house and private feudal demesne of the lord of the Manor of Ditton, and refers today to the rebuilt building and smaller grounds towards the edge of the town of Slough in England. A key feature is its centuries-old moat which extends to most of the adjoining lawns and garden.

    2.8 km · country house in Datchet, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Queen Mother Reservoir

    The Queen Mother Reservoir is a public water supply reservoir that lies between the M4 and the M25 to the west of London, close to Datchet. It is 475 acres in size or about 1 km in diameter - making it one of the largest inland areas of water in Southern England.

    1.9 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Wraysbury Baptist Chapel

    Wraysbury Baptist Chapel is in the village of Wraysbury, Berkshire, England. The present day building was opened in 1862, but the chapel was first established in 1827.

    3.7 km · chapel in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Colnbrook

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 5 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 45 km
Stations
Heathrow Terminal 5 station, 2.7 km · Langley railway station, 3.1 km · Iver railway station, 3 km · Terminal 5, London Heathrow Airport, 2.7 km · Wraysbury railway station, 3.2 km
  • London → Colnbrook
    28 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £3–4
  • Luton, Luton → Colnbrook
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Colnbrook
    28 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £3–4
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Colnbrook

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 Colnbrook. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    104 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    290 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    423 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    548 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    583 km

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Around it

Next door to Colnbrook

Colnbrook is 17 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Datchetvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Hortonvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Wraysburyvillage located in Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Harmondsworthvillage in west London3 km
  • Poylevillage in Berkshire, England, UK1.1 km
  • Langleyvillage in Berkshire, England3.3 km