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Crowthorne

Crowthorne is a village, and civil parish, in the Bracknell Forest district of southeastern Berkshire, England.

Crowthorne
Crowthorne · Robin Corps from Crowthorne, England
The place

Crowthorne is a village, and civil parish, in the Bracknell Forest district of southeastern Berkshire, England. It had a population of 7,806 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Crowthorne

6 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
    King Edward VI Aston School

    King Edward VI Aston School is a selective, all-boys grammar school and specialist sports college. The school, designed by Birmingham architect J. A. Chatwin,, an old boy of the related King Edward's School, opened in 1883 and is still, with additional buildings, located on its original site, in the Aston area of Birmingham, England.

    800 m · selective, all-boys grammar school and specialist sports college · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths

    Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths is a 1,696.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire and Surrey that extend from a minority of the parish of Crowthorne including around Broadmoor Hospital in the west to Bagshot south-east, Bracknell north-east, and Sandhurst, south. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.

    3.5 km · historical site in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Heath Lake

    Heath Lake is a 6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire. The SSSI is part of the 22.3-hectare Heathlake Local Nature Reserve, which is owned and managed by Wokingham Borough Council.

    1.8 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wellington College Bog

    Wellington College Bog is a 6.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the grounds of Wellington College on the northern outskirts of Sandhurst in Berkshire. The site features a valley bog, which is one of the richest in the county, in terms of bryophytes and flowering plants, containing several species which are uncommon or rare in southern Britain.

    1.8 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ambarrow Court

    Ambarrow Court is a 7.8-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Little Sandhurst in Berkshire. It is owned and managed by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.

    2.3 km · park · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Barossa nature reserve

    Barossa is a 498-hectare nature reserve north of Camberley in Surrey. It is owned by the Ministry of Defence and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    3.9 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 Crowthorne

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 26 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 49 km · London Luton (LTN), 63 km
Stations
Sandhurst railway station, 2.8 km · Crowthorne railway station, 1.9 km
  • London → Crowthorne
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–7
  • Luton, Luton → Crowthorne
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–10
  • London, Essex → Crowthorne
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–7
  • 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 Crowthorne

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFarnborough has a good network of cycle routes, the majority being either off-road or along lanes segregated from motor traffic.

From Wikivoyage: Farnborough, 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

    84 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    271 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    549 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    585 km

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

Around it

Next door to Crowthorne

Crowthorne is 16 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.