Frogmore
Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England.

Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. It comprises 33 acres (130,000 m2), of primarily private gardens managed by the Crown Estate. It is the location of Frogmore House, a royal retreat, and Frogmore Cottage. The name derives from the preponderance of frogs which have always lived in this low-lying and marshy area near the River Thames. This area is part of the local flood plain. Its large landscaped gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
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Worth seeing in and around Frogmore
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.
- 01Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about 25 miles west of central London. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.
1.3 km · historic castle, royal residence at Windsor in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St George's Chapel, Windsor
St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a royal peculiar, and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter.
1.4 km · place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Leonardo's horse
Leonardo's Horse ) is a project for a bronze sculpture that was commissioned from Leonardo da Vinci in 1482 by the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro, but never completed. It was intended to be the largest equestrian statue in the world, a monument to the duke's father Francesco Sforza.
1.3 km · unexecuted sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci · Wikipedia - 04Frogmore House
Frogmore House is a 17th-century English country house owned by the Crown Estate. It is a historic Grade I listed building.
0 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in Windsor, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Windsor 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.
3.4 km · Royal Park near the town of Windsor, England · Wikipedia - 0640-foot telescope
William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. It used a 48-inch diameter primary mirror with a 40-foot-long focal length.
3.8 km · reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England · Wikipedia - 07Frogmore Cottage
Frogmore Cottage is a historic Grade II listed home on the Frogmore estate, which is part of Home Park in Windsor, England. The cottage was described as a 5,089 sq ft, five bedroom and nursery, four bathroom single-residence house in 2020.
300 m · building in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Royal Burial Ground
The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British royal family. Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
300 m · cemetery used by the British Royal Family, surrounds the Royal Mausoleum on the Frogmore Estate · Wikipedia - 09The Royal Mausoleum
The Royal Mausoleum is a mausoleum for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert. It is located on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire, England.
300 m · Grade I listed building in Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10King George VI Memorial Chapel
The King George VI Memorial Chapel is part of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England. It was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for herself and her family, and was completed in 1969.
1.4 km · burial place of King George VI of the United Kingdom and his immediate family, located in the St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Overbeck's
Sharpitor, TQ8 8LW, overbecks@nationaltrust.org.uk.
From Wikivoyage: Frogmore, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Launch a boat at the public hard at the head of the creek. There is a Regatta during the summer in Frogmore - around the first or second weekend in August. A variety of boat based races are followed by the race across the creek - through the tidal mud. Amusing to watch or take part in! Take part in the race across the creek at the regatta.
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Where to eat
- 01The Beachhouse
Beach House, Horswell Lane, South Milton,TQ7 3JU (on South Milton Sands), beach@beachhousedevon.com.
- 02Dick and Wills
Fore Street, Salcombe TQ8 8JG, info@dickandwills.co.uk.
- 03Winking Prawn
A beach hut cafe on Cliff Rd just west of Salcombe Castle.
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Getting to Frogmore
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 9 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 46 km · London Luton (LTN), 47 km
- Stations
- Windsor & Eton Central railway station, 1.5 km · Windsor & Eton Riverside railway station, 1.5 km · Sunnymeads railway station, 2.5 km · Datchet railway station, 1.4 km
- London → Frogmore27 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £3.5–4.5
- Luton, Luton → Frogmore19 km · quickest by road, 36 min · £2–3
- London, Essex → Frogmore27 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £3.5–4.5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Frogmore
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 Frogmore. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Frogmore
Frogmore is 22 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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