Highclere
Highclere is a village and civil parish in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Hampshire, England, in the northern part of the county, near the Berkshire border.
Highclere is a village and civil parish in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Hampshire, England, in the northern part of the county, near the Berkshire border. It is famous as the location of Highclere Castle, a Victorian house of the Earl of Carnarvon, and the setting for films and TV series including Downton Abbey.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01West Berkshire Museum
The Wharf, Newbury RG14 5AS, museum@westberks.gov.uk.
- 02Donnington Castle
Donnington, RG14 2LE (1 mile north of Newbury off B4494; grid reference SU461691).
- 03Highclere Castle
- 04Sandham Memorial Chapel
Harts Lane, Burghclere, near Newbury, RG20 9JT (5 miles south of Newbury on the A34; grid reference SU463608), sandham@nationaltrust.org.uk.
- 05Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre
Muddy Lane, Lower Way, Thatcham, RG19 3FU, ndc@bbowt.org.uk.
- 06The Living Rainforest
From Wikivoyage: Highclere, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Go to the races at
- 01Newbury Racecourse
Racecourse Rd, Newbury RG14 7NZ (A mile east of town).
- 02Newbury & Crookham Golf Club
Bury's Bank Rd, Newbury RG19 8BZ (2½ miles SE of Newbury),.
- 03Corn Exchange
Market Place, Newbury RG14 5BD, premium).
- 04Watermill
From Wikivoyage: Highclere, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
A reasonable range of choices including pubs, the usual chain restaurants (pizza/pasta or French), Indian and a Thai. Local restaurants of note include
- 01Crab & Boar
- 02Yew Tree
- 03The Pot Kiln
- 04The Vineyard
- 05Gurkha Chef
From Wikivoyage: Highclere, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Highclere
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 85 km · London Luton (LTN), 91 km
- London → Highclere41 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £4.5–6
- Luton, Luton → Highclere55 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
- Bristol → Highclere2 km · quickest by road, 14 min · £0.5
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Highclere
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 Highclere. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Highclere – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Highclere
Highclere is 30 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.