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Tidmarsh

Tidmarsh is a village and civil parish in the West Berkshire district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England.

Tidmarsh
Tidmarsh · Greenhat2021
The place

Tidmarsh is a village and civil parish in the West Berkshire district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. Its development is mainly residential and agricultural, and is centred on the A340 road between Pangbourne and Theale. The rural area is bounded by the M4 motorway to the south. It is centred 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Pangbourne, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west of Reading and 40 miles (64 km) west of London. Tidmarsh shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parish of Sulham. In 2021 the parish had a population of 414.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tidmarsh

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.

  1. 01
    Englefield 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 km · Elizabethan country house in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tilehurst Water Tower

    Tilehurst Water Tower is a distinctive water tower in Tilehurst, a suburb of the English town and borough of Reading. It lies on a ridgeline at the highest point of both the borough and the town, with its base at 100 metres AMSL. Together with its own intrinsic height, this makes it a prominent landmark that can be seen from a considerable distance, especially when approaching Reading from the west along the M4 motorway.

    3.3 km · water tower in Tilehurst, Reading, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bere Court And Bere House

    Bere Court is an English country house. It is a historic Grade I listed building.

    1.9 km · listed building in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church 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.

    3.4 km · church in Theale, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Whitchurch Bridge

    Whitchurch Bridge is a toll bridge that carries the B471 road over the River Thames in England. It links the villages of Pangbourne in Berkshire, and Whitchurch-on-Thames in Oxfordshire – crossing the river just downstream of Whitchurch Lock.

    2.2 km · bridge between West Berkshire and South Oxfordshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Arthur Newbery Park

    Arthur Newbery Park is a park in Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire. It is named after Arthur Newbery, who donated the land in 1932.

    3.7 km · public park in Tilehurst, Reading, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hardwick House

    Hardwick House is a Tudor house on the banks of the River Thames on a slight rise at Whitchurch-on-Thames in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is reputed to have been the inspiration for E. H. Shepard's illustrations of Toad Hall in the book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, although this is also claimed by Mapledurham House, Fowey Hall Hotel, Foxwarren Park and Fawley Court.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed English country house in South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wilder's Folly

    Wilder's Folly is a folly and dovecote at Nunhide, near the village of Sulham in the English county of Berkshire.

    2.5 km · brick tower in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Tidmarsh

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 43 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 72 km
Stations
Theale railway station, 3.9 km · Pangbourne railway station, 2 km
  • London → Tidmarsh
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Tidmarsh
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Tidmarsh
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £7–9
  • 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 Tidmarsh

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    88 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    251 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    458 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

    566 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tidmarsh

Tidmarsh is 8 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Pangbournevillage in Berkshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Thealevillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Englefieldvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England2.8 km
  • Bradfieldvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England3.7 km
  • Purley on Thamesvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Sulhama village located in West Berkshire, United Kingdom900 m