Village and civil parish in Hampshire, England

Silchester

Silchester is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) north of Basingstoke in Hampshire.

Every way there

London → Silchester
70 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–9
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Luton, Luton → Silchester
75 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
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London, Essex → Silchester
70 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–9
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Silchester, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Silchester has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LHR), 46 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Basingstoke, 10 km.

51.353°, -1.101°

It is adjacent to the county boundary with Berkshire and about 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Reading.

How locals move

Getting around Silchester the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Lewis Hulbert (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.