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Shiplake

Shiplake consists of three settlements: Shiplake, Shiplake Cross and Lower Shiplake.

Shiplake
Shiplake · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Shiplake consists of three settlements: Shiplake, Shiplake Cross and Lower Shiplake. Together these villages form a civil parish situated beside the River Thames 2 miles (3 km) south of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The river forms the parish boundary to the east and south, and also the county boundary between Oxfordshire and Berkshire. The villages have two discrete centres separated by agricultural land. The 2011 Census records the parish population as 1,954 and containing 679 homes. The A4155 main road linking Henley with Reading, Berkshire passes through the parish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shiplake

10 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
    Park Place

    Park Place is a historic Grade II Listed country house and gardens in the civil parish of Remenham in Berkshire, England, set in large grounds above the River Thames near Henley, Oxfordshire.

    3.5 km · country house and gardens in the civil parish of Remenham in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Conway's Bridge

    Conway's Bridge is an ornamental rustic arched stone structure close to the River Thames on the estate of Park Place, Berkshire, England.

    2.9 km · bridge in Remenham, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Crowsley Park

    Crowsley Park is a 160-acre country estate in South Oxfordshire, central-southern England, owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

    3.9 km · grade II listed English country house in Binfield Heath, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Deanery

    Deanery Garden is an Arts and Crafts style house and garden in Sonning, Berkshire, England. The house was designed and built by architect Edwin Lutyens between 1899 and 1901.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed country house in Sonning, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Henley Bridge

    Henley Bridge is a road bridge built in 1786 over the River Thames, between Henley-on-Thames, in Oxfordshire, and Remenham, in Berkshire. The bridge has five elliptical stone arches, and links Hart Street in Henley with White Hill in Remenham.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed bridge in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    River and Rowing Museum

    The River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, was on a site at Mill Meadows by the River Thames. It had three main themes represented by major permanent galleries, the non-tidal River Thames, the international sport of rowing and the local town of Henley-on-Thames.

    3.3 km · Local museum in Henley-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Loddon Nature Reserve

    Loddon Nature Reserve is a 14-hectare nature reserve on the edge of the village of Twyford in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

    3.6 km · park · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin

    Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames, in the South Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, 9 miles northeast of Reading, 7 miles west of Maidenhead, 23 miles southeast of Oxford and 37 miles west of London, near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. The population at the 2021 census was 12,186.

    3.9 km · church in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ali's Pond Local Nature Reserve

    Ali's Pond is a 0.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Sonning in Berkshire. It is owned by Sonning Parish Council and managed by the Friends of Ali's Pond.

    3.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Sonning Backwater Bridges

    Sonning Backwater Bridges are the road bridges across the first two of three branches of the Thames at Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire, England. Built in 1986 to replace older wooden structures, one bridge spans a main weir stream – traditionally named the backwater – and the other spans the splayed under-mill outlets from the millrace of the island known as Sonning Eye.

    3.2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · 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.

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Getting to Shiplake

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 55 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 63 km
Stations
Twyford railway station, 3.9 km · Wargrave railway station, 1.6 km · Shiplake railway station, 1.4 km · Henley-on-Thames railway station, 3.4 km
  • London → Shiplake
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Shiplake
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £8–10
  • London, Essex → Shiplake
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £6–8
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shiplake

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 Shiplake. 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

    95 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    264 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    532 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    568 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shiplake

Shiplake is 7 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Henley-on-Thamestown in Oxfordshire, England3.7 km
  • Twyfordvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, UK3.6 km
  • Wargravevillage and civil parish in Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Charvilvillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Binfield Heathvillage in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England1.8 km
  • Harpsdenvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England2.3 km