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Nettlebed

Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire in the Chiltern Hills about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) north-west of Henley-on-Thames and 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Wallingford.

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The place

Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire in the Chiltern Hills about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) north-west of Henley-on-Thames and 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Wallingford. The parish includes the hamlet of Crocker End, about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) east of the village. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 727.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nettlebed

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
    Bear, Oveys and Great Bottom Woods

    Bear, Oveys and Great Bottom Woods is a 64.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. This beech woodland has more than 40 species of ground flora which is commonly associated with ancient woods in southern Britain, including broad-leaved helleborine, southern wood-rush, yellow archangel, enchanter's nightshade, goldilocks buttercup, woodruff and the moss Leucobryum glaucum.

    3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Bartholomew, Nettlebed

    St Bartholomew’s Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire. It is a Grade II listed building dedicated to Bartholomew the Apostle.

    400 m · church building in Nettlebed, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Joyce Grove

    Joyce Grove is a country house built in a Jacobethan style in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England. It was formerly owned by Sue Ryder which, until March 2020 operated its Nettlebed Palliative Care Facility at Joyce Grove at Nettlebed in Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire.

    500 m · country house in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bix Bottom

    Bix Bottom is a 102.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. It is owned and managed as Warburg Nature Reserve by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

    1.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pishill Church

    Pishill Church is a Grade II listed Church of England parish church in the village of Pishill, Oxfordshire. It is unusual in that it has no known dedication.

    3.8 km · church building in Pishill, Oxfordshire, England, UK · 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 Nettlebed

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 39 km · London Luton (LTN), 54 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 73 km
  • Luton, Luton → Nettlebed
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
  • London → Nettlebed
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Nettlebed
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–8
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nettlebed

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 Nettlebed. 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

    101 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    259 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    522 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    558 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nettlebed

Nettlebed is 14 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Nuffieldvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England3.2 km
  • Swyncombevillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
  • Bix and Assendoncivil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England4 km
  • Bixvillage in Oxfordshire, England3.2 km