Padworth
Padworth is a dispersed settlement and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, with the nearest town being Tadley.
Padworth is a dispersed settlement and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, with the nearest town being Tadley. Padworth is in the unitary authority of West Berkshire, and its main settlement is at Aldermaston Wharf or Lower Padworth, where there is Aldermaston railway station. It has its southern boundary with Mortimer West End, Hampshire. The south of the parish is wooded towards its edges and the north of the parish is agricultural with a hotel beside the Kennet and Avon Canal. In the centre of the parish is a Georgian manor house, later used as a school, Padworth College.
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Worth seeing in and around Padworth
9 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.
- 01Aldermaston Lock
Aldermaston Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Aldermaston Wharf in the English county of Berkshire. It stands at the junction of the civil parishes of Padworth, Beenham and Aldermaston.
1.8 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Aldermaston, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldermaston
The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldermaston, is the Church of England parish church of Aldermaston in Berkshire. The church, which is dedicated to St Mary, dates from the mid-12th century and has examples of Norman and Jacobean architecture.
2.5 km · church in Aldermaston, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Ufton Lock
Ufton Lock is a degated lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Padworth and Sulhamstead, Berkshire, England.
2.2 km · canal lock in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Padworth Lock
Padworth Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Aldermaston Wharf in the civil parish of Padworth in the English county of Berkshire. Padworth Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer John Hore of Newbury, and was originally a turf-sided lock.
1.4 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Padworth, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Tyle Mill Lock
Tyle Mill Lock is a lock situated near Tyle Mill and the village of Sulhamstead on the Kennet and Avon Canal, England. Tyle Mill 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 as part of the Kennet Navigation.
2.9 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Aldermaston Court
Aldermaston Court is a country house and private park built in the Victorian era for Daniel Higford Davall Burr with incorporations from a Stuart house. It is south-east of the village nucleus of Aldermaston in the English county of Berkshire.
2.6 km · country house in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Padworth 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.
1.7 km · park · Wikipedia - 08Old Copse, Beenham
Old Copse, Beenham is an 8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Beenham in Berkshire. The site is private land with no public access.
3.6 km · scientific research site in Berkshire · Wikipedia - 09Ufton 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.
900 m · Grade I listed English country house in West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Padworth
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 46 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 74 km
- Stations
- Aldermaston railway station, 1.9 km · Brimpton Airfield, 4 km
- London → Padworth70 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Padworth72 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Padworth70 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £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 Padworth
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 Padworth. 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.
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Next door to Padworth
Padworth is 12 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Aldermastonvillage and civil parish in West Berkshire in England, UK2.7 km
- Beenhamvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK3.5 km
- Sulhamsteadvillage in Berkshire, England, UK2.8 km
- Ufton Nervetvillage in Berkshire, England, UK2.1 km
- Mortimer Commonvillage in Berkshire, UK4 km
- Mortimer West Endvillage in Hampshire, England, UK3.1 km