Egham
Egham is a town in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately 19 miles (31 km) west of central London.
Egham is a town in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately 19 miles (31 km) west of central London. First settled in the Bronze Age, the town was under the control of Chertsey Abbey for much of the Middle Ages. In 1215, Magna Carta was sealed by King John at Runnymede, to the north of Egham, having been chosen for its proximity to the King's residence at Windsor. Under the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the early 16th Century, the major, formerly ecclesiastical, manorial freehold interests in the town and various market revenues passed to the Crown.
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Worth seeing in and around Egham
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.
- 01Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London, formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a member institution of the federal University of London. It has 3 faculties, 12 academic departments and approximately 10,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from more than 100 countries.
1.4 km · university in Surrey, UK · Wikipedia - 02Frogmore House
Frogmore House is a 17th-century English country house owned by the Crown Estate. It is a historic Grade I listed building.
6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Windsor, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Windsor Great Park
Windsor Great Park is a royal park of 2,020 hectares to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England. It is adjacent to the private 265-hectare Home Park, which is nearer the castle.
4.3 km · Royal Park near the town of Windsor, England · Wikipedia - 04Thorpe Park
Thorpe Park is a theme park located in the village of Thorpe between the towns of Chertsey and Staines-upon-Thames in Surrey, England, 20 miles west-southwest of Central London. It is operated by Merlin Entertainments and features rides, themed cabins, live events, and Hyperia, the United Kingdom's tallest and fastest rollercoaster at over 236 feet and 129 km/h.
3.6 km · amusement park in Thorpe, Surrey, England · Wikipedia - 05Cumberland Lodge
Cumberland Lodge is a 17th-century Grade II listed country house in Windsor Great Park 3.5 miles south of Windsor Castle. Since 1947 it has been occupied by the charitable foundation known as Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity and social enterprise that exists to empower young people to lead the conversation around social division.
4.2 km · country house in Windsor Great Park · Wikipedia - 06Royal Lodge
Royal Lodge is a Grade II listed house in Windsor Great Park in Berkshire, England, half a mile north of Cumberland Lodge and 3.2 miles south of Windsor Castle. The site of homes since the 17th century, the present structure dates from the 19th century, and was expanded in the 1930s for the then Duke of York, the future King George VI. Its central section consists of three storeys, with two-storey wings, totalling about 30 rooms, including seven bedrooms.
4.2 km · house in Windsor Great Park in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Fort Belvedere, Surrey
Fort Belvedere is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England. The fort was built as a folly by Henry Flitcroft in 1750–1755, and was later predominantly re-constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.
5.2 km · Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Virginia Water Lake
Virginia Water lies on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park, in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey and the civil parishes of Old Windsor and Sunningdale in Berkshire, in England. It is a man-made lake taking its name from a natural body of water of the same name.
4.3 km · lake on the boundary of Berkshire and Surrey, in England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Colossus
Colossus is a steel roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, and the park's first major attraction. It was built by Liechtenstein-based manufacturers Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel as an adaptation of Monte Makaya in Brazil.
3.8 km · roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England · Wikipedia - 10Chertsey Abbey
Chertsey Abbey, dedicated to St Peter, was a Benedictine monastery located at Chertsey in the English county of Surrey. It was founded in 666 AD by Saint Erkenwald who was the first abbot, and from 675 AD the Bishop of London.
5.2 km · Benedictine monastery · Wikipedia
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Getting to Egham
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 8 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 40 km · London Luton (LTN), 51 km
- Stations
- Wraysbury railway station, 3.3 km · Sunnymeads railway station, 4.6 km · Longcross railway station, 5.9 km · Chertsey railway station, 5.4 km · Ashford railway station, 5.6 km
- London → Egham31 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £3.5–4.5
- Luton, Luton → Egham51 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £5–7
- London, Essex → Egham31 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £3.5–4.5
- 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 Egham
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 Egham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe South's major ferry ports are (clockwise from the east) Dover (ferries from Calais and Dunkirk in France), Newhaven (ferries from Dieppe in France) and Portsmouth (ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre and St.
- Get inPoole (which shares ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg and St.
- Go nextLondon - The capital is practically on your doorstep when you're in South East England, so it is an obvious choice for a day trip or longer.
- Go nextGo Abroad - The South East is the closest part of the UK to the European mainland (the English Channel is just 20 miles (32 km) across at its narrowest), and with Channel Tunnel journey times from Kent to Calais as short as 35 minutes, day trips to northern France, Belgium and beyond are highly feasible and attractive.
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Next door to Egham
Egham is 22 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Chertseytown in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England5.2 km
- Ashfordtown in the borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England5.5 km
- Old Windsorvillage and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England4.3 km
- Runnymedelocal government district with borough status in Surrey, England3.8 km
- Hortonvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK5 km
- Spelthornelocal government district with borough status in Surrey, England3.4 km