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Mortimer Common

Mortimer Common, generally referred to as simply Mortimer, is a village in the civil parish of Stratfield Mortimer in Berkshire.

Mortimer Common
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The place

Mortimer Common, generally referred to as simply Mortimer, is a village in the civil parish of Stratfield Mortimer in Berkshire. Mortimer is in the local government district of West Berkshire and is seven miles south-west of Reading.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mortimer Common

5 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
    Silchester House

    Silchester House is a Victorian mansion located in Silchester, in the Basingstoke and Deane district, in Hampshire, England, on the border with Berkshire. The west wing of the house dates back to the 17th century while newer parts of the house, such as the library and music room, were added in the late 1920s by Thomas Hartley of Hartley's.

    3.7 km · house in Silchester, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve

    Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve is a 28-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the edge of the hamlet of Padworth Common, between Reading and Newbury in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

    3.3 km · park · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ufton Court

    Ufton Court is a manor house in the civil parish of Ufton Nervet, in the county of Berkshire, England. It is run by children's experiential education charity The Ufton Court Educational Trust, and also operates as a wedding and corporate event venue.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed English country house in West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mortimer War Memorial

    The Mortimer War Memorial is a monument that commemorates the lives of servicemen from Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire, England, who were killed in war. Unveiled on 9 October 1921, it was originally intended to commemorate 56 soldiers from the parish who died during the First World War.

    400 m · war memorial in Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wokefield Park

    Wokefield Park is an 18th-century country house, situated in the parish of Wokefield, near Mortimer, in the English county of Berkshire. It is currently run as an events venue.

    2.3 km · 18th-century country house in Berkshire, 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 Mortimer Common

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 43 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 66 km · London Luton (LTN), 73 km
Stations
Mortimer railway station, 2 km
  • London → Mortimer Common
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Mortimer Common
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Mortimer Common
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £7–9
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mortimer 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 Mortimer 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

    78 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    252 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    461 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    539 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    575 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mortimer Common

Mortimer Common is 11 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.