Rotherfield Peppard
Rotherfield Peppard is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire.
Rotherfield Peppard is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire. It is centred 3 miles (5 km) west of Henley-on-Thames, 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) north of Reading, Berkshire and 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Rotherfield Greys. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 1,649. The area includes Peppard Hill, which is 1⁄2 mile (800 m) west of the centre of the village and adjoins Sonning Common. Peppard Common is public woodland and meadow in between in a ravine. The far east of the parish is a golf course and the far west is Kingwood Common which is also wooded common land. In 1951, Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), novelist and winner of the Newberry Award for Best Children's Book, moved to Rotherfield Peppard, where she lived until her death. A blue plaque, unveiled in 2008, identifies her home.
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Worth seeing in and around Rotherfield Peppard
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.
- 01Greys Court
Greys Court is a Tudor country house and gardens in the southern Chiltern Hills at Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames in the county of Oxfordshire, England. Now owned by the National Trust, it is located at grid reference SU725834, and is open to the public.
2.3 km · Tudor country house in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Crowsley Park
Crowsley Park is a 160-acre country estate in South Oxfordshire, central-southern England, owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
2.5 km · grade II listed English country house in Binfield Heath, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Rotherfield Greys Castle
Rotherfield Greys Castle, initially known as Retherfield Castle, is a 14th-century fortified manor house built in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire. Only the ruins of a single tower and a section of curtain wall survives, of which is associated with Greys Court, a Tudor country house.
2.4 km · English castle in Oxfordshire · Wikipedia - 04Bear, 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.
2.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 05Kidmore House
Kidmore House is a Grade II* listed stately home in the village of Kidmore End, in Oxfordshire, England. It was built in 1680 and is described by Historic England as being "Late C17.
3 km · English Country House in Kidmore End, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rotherfield Peppard
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 36 km · London Luton (LTN), 57 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 69 km
- London → Rotherfield Peppard59 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Rotherfield Peppard55 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £8–11
- London, Essex → Rotherfield Peppard59 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–8
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rotherfield Peppard
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 Rotherfield Peppard. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe nearest major ferry port to Henley-on-thames is Harbour which is located next to the city of Portsmouth.
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Next door to Rotherfield Peppard
Rotherfield Peppard is 8 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sonning Commonvillage and civil parish in Oxfordshire, UK1.9 km
- Stoke Rowvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.7 km
- Rotherfield Greysvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England1.8 km
- Highmoorvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.3 km
- Kidmore Endvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England2.5 km
- Gallowstree Commonvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK2.5 km