Village in Oxfordshire, England

Sonning Common

Sonning Common is a village and civil parish in a relatively flat, former common land part of the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, centred 3.5 miles (6 km) west south-west of Henley-on-Thames and 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Reading.

Plan a trip to Sonning Common→From London

Every way there

London → Sonning Common
59 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–8
Guide Today
Luton, Luton → Sonning Common
56 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
Guide Today
London, Essex → Sonning Common
59 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–8
Guide Today

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 Sonning Common, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

Read the note on Sonning Common

What Sonning Common has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LHR), 36 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
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.

51.512°, -0.977°

How locals move

Getting around Sonning Common the local way

Get inThe nearest major ferry port to Henley-on-thames is Harbour which is located next to the city of Portsmouth.

From Wikivoyage: Henley-on-Thames, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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