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Sonning Common

Sonning Common is a village and civil parish in a relatively flat, former common land part of the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, centred 3.5 miles (6 km) west south-west of Henley-on-Thames and 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Reading.

Sonning Common
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The place

Sonning Common is a village and civil parish in a relatively flat, former common land part of the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, centred 3.5 miles (6 km) west south-west of Henley-on-Thames and 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Reading.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Sonning Common

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 36 km · London Luton (LTN), 58 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 68 km
  • London → Sonning Common
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Sonning Common
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
  • London, Essex → Sonning Common
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–8
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sonning Common

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 Sonning Common. 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

    94 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    259 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    449 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    529 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    565 km

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Around it

Next door to Sonning Common

Sonning Common is 6 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.