Holybrook
Holybrook is a civil parish, forming a contiguous part of Reading in West Berkshire and is a mixture of urban, suburban land with watercourses and flood meadows in Berkshire, England.
Holybrook is a civil parish, forming a contiguous part of Reading in West Berkshire and is a mixture of urban, suburban land with watercourses and flood meadows in Berkshire, England. The parish takes its name from the Holy Brook, a watercourse which forms its southern boundary and which is a corollary of the River Kennet. Its main settlements are part of Calcot those commonly known as Beansheaf Farm and Fords Farm, Holybrook and occasionally considered part of Calcot or Southcote which overlaps with this area.
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Worth seeing in and around Holybrook
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.
- 01Elm Park
Elm Park was a football stadium in the West Reading district of Reading, Berkshire, England. The stadium was the home of Reading Football Club from 1896 to 1998, when the club moved to the new Madejski Stadium.
2.9 km · Football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Tilehurst Water Tower
Tilehurst Water Tower is a distinctive water tower in Tilehurst, a suburb of the English town and borough of Reading. It lies on a ridgeline at the highest point of both the borough and the town, with its base at 100 metres AMSL. Together with its own intrinsic height, this makes it a prominent landmark that can be seen from a considerable distance, especially when approaching Reading from the west along the M4 motorway.
1.5 km · water tower in Tilehurst, Reading, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03All Saints' Church, Reading
All Saints' Church is a Church of England parish church in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. The church is on Downshire Square, a tree-lined square in West Reading close to the Bath Road.
3.7 km · grade II listed church in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Mark, Reading
The Church of St Mark, Reading, is an Anglican church in Cranbury Road, Reading, Berkshire. It is part of the parish of St.
3.2 km · grade II listed church in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Burghfield Lock
Burghfield Lock is a lock on the River Kennet at Burghfield in the English county of Berkshire. Burghfield Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer John Hore of Newbury, and this stretch of the river is now administered by the Canal & River Trust and known as the Kennet Navigation.
800 m · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Garston Lock
Garston Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal. It is near the M4 motorway and near Reading, Berkshire, England.
1.6 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield/Theale, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Coley Park House
Coley Park is a suburb to the south of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It is largely built on the country estate of the same name, surrounding Coley House.
3.4 km · house in Coley Park, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Bath Road Reservoir
Bath Road Reservoir is an underground reservoir complex in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. Located to the North-West of the Bath Road in West Reading, the complex covers 5.38 acres.
3.5 km · water tower in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Courage Park
Courage Park is a public park in the Coley Park suburb of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. The park includes amenity grassland, together with a wooded area to the south of the site.
3.1 km · a public park in the suburb of Coley Park in Reading, England · Wikipedia - 10Reading Festival Bridge
The Reading Festival bridge is a temporary footbridge over the River Thames near Reading, Berkshire. First built in 2008, the bridge is installed annually for the Reading Festival to allow access to the main festival site from camping and parking on the north side of the river.
3.6 km · bridge in United Kingdom built for the final weekend in August most years and removed shortly afterwards. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Holybrook
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 40 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 67 km
- Stations
- Tilehurst railway station, 3.7 km · Reading West, 3.7 km · Theale railway station, 2.7 km · Reading Green Park railway station, 2.9 km
- London → Holybrook64 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Holybrook65 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Holybrook64 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
- 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 Holybrook
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 Holybrook. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Holybrook
Holybrook is 5 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Thealevillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom2.7 km
- Burghfieldvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Sulhama village located in West Berkshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Calcotvillage in Berkshire, United Kingdom800 m
- Beansheaf Farmvillage in Berkshire, England, UK500 m
- Tilehurstsuburb of Reading in Berkshire, England2.5 km