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Great Marlow

Great Marlow is a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, lying north of the town of Marlow and south of High Wycombe.

Great Marlow
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The place

Great Marlow is a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, lying north of the town of Marlow and south of High Wycombe. The parish includes the hamlets of Bovingdon Green, Burroughs Grove, Chisbridge Cross and Marlow Common. Prior to November 2007 the major settlement in Great Marlow was Marlow Bottom which has now become a civil parish in its own right.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Marlow

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.

  1. 01
    Harleyford Manor

    Harleyford Manor is a country house near Marlow in Buckinghamshire. The house is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England, and its gardens are also listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed manor house in Wycombe, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Danesfield House

    Danesfield House in Medmenham, near Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills is a former country house now used as a hotel and spa. The house stands on a plateau which shelves steeply down to the River Thames to the south.

    3.9 km · country house in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pound Lane Cricket Ground

    Pound Lane is a cricket ground in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1909, when Buckinghamshire played Dorset in the Minor Counties Championship.

    2.7 km · cricket ground in Marlow, Buckinghamshire · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Westhorpe House

    Westhorpe House is a 31,937 square feet Grade II listed building near Little Marlow which was the home of Maria Nugent and Field marshal Sir George Nugent. The Main House is 20,535 square feet and the Coach House is 4,027 square feet.

    3.8 km · house in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Marlow Place

    Marlow Place is a country house in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed building in Wycombe, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Marlow Town Hall

    Marlow Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. The structure, which is used as a cinema, is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.4 km · municipal building in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Roman Church Of St Peters

    St Peter's Church is a Catholic parish church in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It started from a mission church founded in 1844 and was completed in 1846.

    2.9 km · church building in Marlow, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Marlow By-pass Bridge

    Marlow By-pass Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England. It carries the A404 road between Maidenhead, Berkshire and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

    3.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Moorend Common

    Moorend Common is a 28-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in the hamlet Moor End, west of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. It is in the Chilterns Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and it is owned and managed by Lane End Parish Council.

    3.6 km · site of scientific interest in Buckinghamshire, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Frieth Meadows

    Frieth Meadows is a 2.5-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Frieth in Buckinghamshire. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    3.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Frieth, Buckinghamshire, England · 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 Great Marlow

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 27 km · London Luton (LTN), 44 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 65 km
Stations
Wycombe Air Park, 2.9 km · Marlow railway station, 3.1 km
  • Luton, Luton → Great Marlow
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
  • London → Great Marlow
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Great Marlow
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Marlow

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    106 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    272 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    435 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    528 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    564 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Marlow

Great Marlow is 18 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Marlowtown and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England3.4 km
  • Bishamvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Marlow Bottomvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, UK1.6 km
  • Friethhamlet in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Bovingdon Greenvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom1.3 km
  • Danesfieldhamlet in Buckinghamshire, England3.4 km