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Gallowstree Common

Gallowstree Common is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, England, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of Reading, Berkshire.

The place

Gallowstree Common is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, England, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of Reading, Berkshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gallowstree Common

4 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
    Crowsley Park

    Crowsley Park is a 160-acre country estate in South Oxfordshire, central-southern England, owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

    3.7 km · grade II listed English country house in Binfield Heath, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kidmore House

    Kidmore House is a Grade II* listed stately home in the village of Kidmore End, in Oxfordshire, England. It was built in 1680 and is described by Historic England as being "Late C17.

    2 km · English Country House in Kidmore End, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hardwick House

    Hardwick House is a Tudor house on the banks of the River Thames on a slight rise at Whitchurch-on-Thames in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is reputed to have been the inspiration for E. H. Shepard's illustrations of Toad Hall in the book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, although this is also claimed by Mapledurham House, Fowey Hall Hotel, Foxwarren Park and Fawley Court.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed English country house in South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bear, Oveys and Great Bottom Woods

    Bear, Oveys and Great Bottom Woods is a 64.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. This beech woodland has more than 40 species of ground flora which is commonly associated with ancient woods in southern Britain, including broad-leaved helleborine, southern wood-rush, yellow archangel, enchanter's nightshade, goldilocks buttercup, woodruff and the moss Leucobryum glaucum.

    3.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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 Gallowstree Common

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 38 km · London Luton (LTN), 59 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 70 km
  • London → Gallowstree Common
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Gallowstree Common
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £8–11
  • London, Essex → Gallowstree Common
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £6–8
  • 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 Gallowstree Common

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe local authority has published a cycle map, which shows off-road and low-traffic routes around the town.

From Wikivoyage: Reading (England), 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

    94 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    257 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    451 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    527 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    563 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gallowstree Common

Gallowstree Common is 7 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sonning Commonvillage and civil parish in Oxfordshire, UK2.1 km
  • Kidmore Endvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England1.1 km
  • Rotherfield Peppardvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
  • Trench Greenvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Chalkhouse Greenhamlet in Kidmore End, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England2.8 km
  • Chazey Heathhamlet in Oxfordshire, England, UK2.7 km