Friar Park
Friar Park is a Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames, England.
Friar Park is a Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames, England. Construction began in 1889 and was completed in 1895. It was built for lawyer Sir Frank Crisp, and purchased in January 1970 by English musician and Beatle George Harrison. The site covers about 30 acres (12 ha), and features caves, grottoes, underground passages, a multitude of garden gnomes, and an Alpine rock garden with a scale model of the Matterhorn.
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Getting to Friar Park
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 32 km · London Luton (LTN), 53 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 67 km
- London → Friar Park55 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £5–7
- Luton, Luton → Friar Park51 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–10
- London, Essex → Friar Park55 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £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 Friar Park
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 Friar Park. 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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Next door to Friar Park
Friar Park is 10 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.