Moulsford
Moulsford is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire.
Moulsford is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire. Before 1974, it was in the county of Berkshire, in Wallingford Rural District, but following the Berkshire boundary changes of that year it became a part of Oxfordshire. Moulsford is on the A329, by the River Thames, just north of Streatley and south of Wallingford. The west of the parish is taken up by the foothills of the Berkshire Downs, including the Moulsford Downs. Moulsford Bottom and Kingstanding Hill are traditionally associated with King Alfred and the Battle of Ashdown.
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Worth seeing in and around Moulsford
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.
- 01Moulsford Railway Bridge
Moulsford Railway Bridge, also known locally as "Four Arches" bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges located a little to the north of Moulsford and South Stoke in Oxfordshire, UK. It carries the Great Western Main Line from Paddington, London to Wales and the West across the River Thames. The bridge lies between the stations at Goring & Streatley and Cholsey, and crosses the Thames at an oblique angle on the reach between Cleeve Lock and Benson Lock.
800 m · railway bridge in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Sphinx Hill
Sphinx Hill, also known as the Egyptian House, is a Grade II* listed house in Moulsford, Oxfordshire, England. Designed by John Outram, the Egyptian-style postmodernist house was completed in 1999, making it the youngest listed building in the United Kingdom.
400 m · house in Moulsford, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Goring and Streatley Bridge
Goring and Streatley Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England. The bridge links the twin villages of Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and Streatley, Berkshire, and is adjacent to Goring Lock.
3.1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Lardon Chase
Lardon Chase is a 14.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Streatley in Berkshire. Bordering Oxfordshire, It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is part of the Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down National Trust property.
3.2 km · Site of special scientific interest and national trust property in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia - 05Moulsford Downs
Moulsford Downs is a 13.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. This chalk grassland site on the Berkshire Downs has a rich wildlife.
2.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Moulsford
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 48 km · London Luton (LTN), 64 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 80 km
- Stations
- Goring & Streatley railway station, 3.3 km · Cholsey railway station, 2.2 km · Chiltern Park Aerodrome, 3.1 km · Moulsford railway station, 1.2 km
- London → Moulsford71 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Moulsford62 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Moulsford71 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–11
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No local-transport research exists yet for Moulsford
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 Moulsford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Moulsford
Moulsford is 16 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Goring-on-Thamesvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.2 km
- Cholseyvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, South Oxfordshire, England2.6 km
- Streatleyvillage and civil parish in West Berkshire, Berkshire, England3.1 km
- South Stokevillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, South Oxfordshire, England800 m
- North Stokevillage in Oxfordshire, UK2.8 km
- Winterbrookvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK3.4 km