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Upper Basildon

Upper Basildon is a small village in the civil parish of Basildon, near to Pangbourne, in the English county of Berkshire.

Upper Basildon
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The place

Upper Basildon is a small village in the civil parish of Basildon, near to Pangbourne, in the English county of Berkshire. It has a church, dedicated to St. Stephen, built in 1964 in the shape of the Christian secret symbol of a fish. Basildon Church of England Primary School is located in School Lane.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upper Basildon

6 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
    Basildon Park

    Basildon Park is a country house situated 2 miles south of Goring-on-Thames and Streatley in Berkshire, between the villages of Upper Basildon and Lower Basildon. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gatehampton Railway Bridge

    Gatehampton Railway Bridge, otherwise referred to as Gatehampton Viaduct, is a railway bridge carrying the Great Western Main Line over the River Thames in Lower Basildon, Berkshire, England. It takes the line between the stations at Goring and Streatley and Pangbourne, and crosses the Thames on the reach between Whitchurch Lock and Goring Lock.

    3.5 km · railway bridge in Lower Basildon, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Bartholomew's Church, Lower Basildon

    St Bartholomew's Church is the redundant Church of England parish church of Lower Basildon in the county of Berkshire, England. Built in the late 13th century, the structure was substantially renovated in 1875–1876.

    3.4 km · church in Lower Basildon, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bere Court And Bere House

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

    2.1 km · listed building in 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.

    3.9 km · bridge between West Berkshire and South Oxfordshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Holies Down

    Holies Down is a 5.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Streatley in Berkshire. It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is part of the Holies section of the Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down National Trust property.

    3.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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.

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Getting to Upper Basildon

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 47 km · London Luton (LTN), 69 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 76 km
Stations
Pangbourne railway station, 3.5 km
  • London → Upper Basildon
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Upper Basildon
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £10–13
  • London, Essex → Upper Basildon
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–10
  • 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 Upper Basildon

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 Upper Basildon. 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

    89 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    248 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    461 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    526 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    562 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upper Basildon

Upper Basildon is 12 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Pangbournevillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Bradfieldvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England3.6 km
  • Ashampsteadvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Basildoncivil parish in Berkshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Tidmarshvillage in Berkshire, England, UK4 km
  • Whitchurch-on-Thamesvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.8 km