Tilehurst
Tilehurst is a village in Berkshire, England, on the western outskirts of the Reading.

Tilehurst is a village in Berkshire, England, on the western outskirts of the Reading. The village is administratively split between Tilehurst Within in the Borough of Reading and Tilehurst Without in West Berkshire. Tilehurst Within includes the village centre, known as Tilehurst Triangle.
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Worth seeing in and around Tilehurst
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.
- 01Elm Park
Elm Park was a football stadium in the West Reading district of Reading, Berkshire, England. The stadium was the home of Reading Football Club from 1896 to 1998, when the club moved to the new Madejski Stadium.
2.7 km · Football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Tilehurst 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.
800 m · water tower in Tilehurst, Reading, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Burghfield Lock
Burghfield Lock is a lock on the River Kennet at Burghfield in the English county of Berkshire. Burghfield 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 and known as the Kennet Navigation.
2.8 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Garston 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 - 05All Saints' Church, Reading
All Saints' Church is a Church of England parish church in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. The church is on Downshire Square, a tree-lined square in West Reading close to the Bath Road.
3.7 km · grade II listed church in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Mark, Reading
The Church of St Mark, Reading, is an Anglican church in Cranbury Road, Reading, Berkshire. It is part of the parish of St.
3 km · grade II listed church in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church 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.
3.6 km · church in Theale, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Coley Park House
Coley Park is a suburb to the south of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It is largely built on the country estate of the same name, surrounding Coley House.
3.9 km · house in Coley Park, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Arthur Newbery Park
Arthur Newbery Park is a park in Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire. It is named after Arthur Newbery, who donated the land in 1932.
1.1 km · public park in Tilehurst, Reading, UK · Wikipedia - 10Bath Road Reservoir
Bath Road Reservoir is an underground reservoir complex in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. Located to the North-West of the Bath Road in West Reading, the complex covers 5.38 acres.
3.5 km · water tower in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tilehurst
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 40 km · London Luton (LTN), 66 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 69 km
- Stations
- Theale railway station, 3.7 km · Tilehurst railway station, 1.7 km
- London → Tilehurst64 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Tilehurst64 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Tilehurst64 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £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 Tilehurst
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 Tilehurst. 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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Tilehurst is 5 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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