Sulhamstead
Sulhamstead is a village and civil parish in the West Berkshire district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England.
Sulhamstead is a village and civil parish in the West Berkshire district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. It occupies an approximate rectangle of land south of the (Old) Bath Road (A4) between Reading, its nearest town and Thatcham. It has several small clusters of homes and woodland covering about a fifth of the land, in the centre and north beside which is Thames Valley Police's main Training Centre at Sulhamstead House. Its main amenities are its Church of England parish church and a shop and visitor centre by the Kennet & Avon Canal. In 2011 the parish had a population of 1471.
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Worth seeing in and around Sulhamstead
8 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.
- 01Englefield House
Englefield House is an Elizabethan country house with surrounding estate at Englefield in the English county of Berkshire. The gardens are open to the public all year round on particular weekdays and the house by appointment only for large groups.
3.5 km · Elizabethan country house in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Ufton Lock
Ufton Lock is a degated lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Padworth and Sulhamstead, Berkshire, England.
1.7 km · canal lock in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Aldermaston 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.
3.6 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Aldermaston, Berkshire, England, UK · 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.
3.1 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.
900 m · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Garston Lock
Garston Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal. It is near the M4 motorway and near Reading, Berkshire, England.
3.1 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield/Theale, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Ufton 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.
2 km · Grade I listed English country house in West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church in Theale, Berkshire, in the Diocese of Oxford. It was completed in 1832 in the Early English style, influenced by Salisbury Cathedral.
2.8 km · church in Theale, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sulhamstead
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 44 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 69 km · London Luton (LTN), 72 km
- Stations
- Aldermaston railway station, 3.5 km · Theale railway station, 2.5 km
- London → Sulhamstead68 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Sulhamstead70 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Sulhamstead68 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £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 Sulhamstead
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 Sulhamstead. 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 Sulhamstead
Sulhamstead is 10 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Thealevillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Burghfieldvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.3 km
- Englefieldvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England3.4 km
- Ufton Nervetvillage in Berkshire, England, UK1.1 km
- Padworthvillage in Berkshire, England, UK2.8 km
- Aldermaston Wharfvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.5 km