Spencers Wood
Spencers Wood is a village in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Reading.
Spencers Wood is a village in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Reading. The village of Three Mile Cross adjoins it to the north, and both form part of the civil parish of Shinfield.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Spencers Wood
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.
- 01Madejski Stadium
The Madejski Stadium, currently known as the Select Car Leasing Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Reading, Berkshire, England. It is the home of Reading Football Club, who play in EFL League One.
3.2 km · sports stadium in Reading, Berkshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Beaumys Castle
Beaumys Castle, also known as Beams Castle, was a 14th-century fortified manor house in the parish of Swallowfield in the English county of Berkshire.
2.1 km · castle in Swallowfield, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Farley Hall
Farley Hall is a large 18th-century Grade I listed country house in the English village of Farley Hill, in the civil parish of Swallowfield, Berkshire. The Hall was built in 1720s for Charles Lannoy.
4 km · Grade I listed English country house in Wokingham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Swallowfield Meadow
Swallowfield Meadow is a 0.7-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Swallowfield, south of Reading in Berkshire. It is owned and managed by Swallowfield Parish Council.
2.2 km · park · Wikipedia - 05Stratfield Saye Priory
Stratfield Saye Priory was an alien priory belonging to the Abbey of Vallemont, located at Beech Hill in the Berkshire part of the parish of Stratfield Saye. It was established in 1169 or 1170 and dissolved in 1399.
2.4 km · priory in Beech Hill, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Spencers Wood
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 37 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 61 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km
- London → Spencers Wood60 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Spencers Wood66 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–11
- London, Essex → Spencers Wood60 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £6–8
- 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 Spencers Wood
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 Spencers Wood. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Reading (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Spencers Wood
Spencers Wood is 7 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Swallowfieldvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England2 km
- Beech Hillvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Shinfieldvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Wokefieldhamlet and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Arborfieldvillage in Berkshire, UK4 km
- Riseleyvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.5 km