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Tilehurst

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

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Elm 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
  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.

    800 m · water tower in Tilehurst, Reading, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Burghfield 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
  4. 04
    Garston 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
  5. 05
    All 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
  6. 06
    Church 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
  7. 07
    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.

    3.6 km · church in Theale, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Coley 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
  9. 09
    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.

    1.1 km · public park in Tilehurst, Reading, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bath 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Tilehurst
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Tilehurst
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Tilehurst
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £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 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.

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

    254 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    456 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    532 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    568 km

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

Around it

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Tilehurst is 5 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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