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Sunningdale

Sunningdale is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

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The place

Sunningdale is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. Located in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, it takes up the extreme southeast corner of Berkshire and is adjoined by green buffers including Sunningdale Golf Club and Wentworth Golf Club. Its northern peripheral estates adjoin Virginia Water Lake.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sunningdale

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
    Fort Belvedere, Surrey

    Fort Belvedere is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England. The fort was built as a folly by Henry Flitcroft in 1750–1755, and was later predominantly re-constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.

    1.2 km · Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Virginia Water Lake

    Virginia Water lies on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park, in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey and the civil parishes of Old Windsor and Sunningdale in Berkshire, in England. It is a man-made lake taking its name from a natural body of water of the same name.

    2.2 km · lake on the boundary of Berkshire and Surrey, in England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sunninghill Park

    Sunninghill Park was a country house and estate of about 665 acres directly north of Cheapside, in the civil parishes of Sunninghill and Ascot and Winkfield, adjoining Windsor Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. The early 19th-century house burned down in 1947 and a replacement was built in the grounds during the final years of the 1980s to be the official residence of the Duke of York from 1990 until 2004; it was sold in 2007 to Timur Kulibayev for £19.7 million which was £4 million more than the asking price.

    3.5 km · country house and estate in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Savill Garden

    The Savill Garden is an enclosed part of Windsor Great Park in England, created by Sir Eric Savill in the 1930s. It is managed by the Crown Estate and charges an entrance fee.

    3.9 km · enclosed part of Windsor Great Park in Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Updown Court

    Updown Court is a Californian style residence situated in the village of Windlesham in Surrey, England. The 103-room mansion has 58 acres of landscaped gardens and private woodland.

    3.5 km · building in Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Valley Gardens

    The Valley Gardens are 220 acres of woodland garden, part of the Crown Estate located near Englefield Green in the English county of Surrey, on the eastern edge of Windsor Great Park. The Valley Gardens and the nearby Savill Gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

    2.6 km · botanical garden near Englefield Green in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    The Church of Saint Michael and All Angels is in the village of Sunninghill, in Berkshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Oxford.

    2.1 km · church building in Sunninghill and Ascot, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Riverside Walk, Virginia Water

    Riverside Walk is a 21.2-hectare local nature reserve in Virginia Water, Surrey. It is owned by Runnymede Borough Council and managed by The Cabrera Trust Committee.

    3.7 km · park · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Royal Berkshire Hotel

    The Royal Berkshire Hotel is a country house hotel within a noteworthy example of a late Queen Anne mansion previously called The Oaks and located at Ascot in the English county of Berkshire.

    1.2 km · The Royal Berkshire Hotel is a country house hotel · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Savill Building

    The Savill Building is a visitor centre at the entrance to the Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park, Surrey, England designed by Glen Howells Architects, Buro Happold and Engineers Haskins Robinson Waters. It was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 26 June 2006.

    3.8 km · visitor centre at the entrance to The Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park, Surrey, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sunningdale

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 14 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 41 km · London Luton (LTN), 56 km
Stations
Ascot railway station, 3.6 km · Longcross railway station, 2.6 km · Sunningdale railway station, 800 m
  • London → Sunningdale
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £4–5
  • Luton, Luton → Sunningdale
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Sunningdale
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £4–5
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sunningdale

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 Sunningdale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe South's major ferry ports are (clockwise from the east) Dover (ferries from Calais and Dunkirk in France), Newhaven (ferries from Dieppe in France) and Portsmouth (ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre and St.
  • Get inPoole (which shares ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg and St.
  • Go nextLondon - The capital is practically on your doorstep when you're in South East England, so it is an obvious choice for a day trip or longer.
  • Go nextGo Abroad - The South East is the closest part of the UK to the European mainland (the English Channel is just 20 miles (32 km) across at its narrowest), and with Channel Tunnel journey times from Kent to Calais as short as 35 minutes, day trips to northern France, Belgium and beyond are highly feasible and attractive.

From Wikivoyage: South East England, 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

    92 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    434 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    552 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    588 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sunningdale

Sunningdale is 25 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ascottown in Berkshire, England3.3 km
  • Virginia Watervillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England2.6 km
  • Sunninghill and Ascotcivil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead2.1 km
  • Sunninghillvillage in the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot in Berkshire, England2.2 km
  • Cheapsidehamlet in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England2.6 km
  • South Ascotvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.2 km