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Purley Hall

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Purley Hall is a designed landscape in Berkshire, entered on the register of historic parks and gardens at Grade II*. Grade II* marks a particularly important designed landscape. The Albion Guide lists 14 registered parks and gardens in the county; this is one of them. The surrounding countryside is part of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.

The nearest railway station is Pangbourne, 1.6 km to the north-west. Other registered parks and gardens nearby include Basildon Park and Englefield House Garden.

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Photo of the North Wessex Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

North Wessex Downs

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Hungerford

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

Photo along the Thames Path, a 185-mile National Trail running from Kemble to London, England.Highlight

Thames Path

National Trail

The river from its Cotswold trickle to the Thames Barrier — the gentlest long walk in Britain.

1.2 km N · spans 7 counties

Photo of the Chilterns, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Chilterns

National Landscape near The Lee

Beech woods and chalk downland within easy reach of London, laced with old ridge paths and grazing red kites

1.3 km NW

Photo of the River Thames, a 135-mile river navigation running from Cricklade to Teddington, England.Highlight

River Thames

River navigation

The non-tidal Thames — 45 locks of managed river between Cricklade's meadows and the tideway at Teddington.

1.3 km N · spans 7 counties

Photo of Basildon Park, a Grade II registered house & garden near Goring-on-Thames in the North Wessex Downs, Berkshire, south east England.Highlight

Basildon Park

House & garden near Goring-on-Thames

Palladian mansion in Thames-side parkland.

4.2 km NW

Photo of Englefield House Garden, a Grade II registered house & garden near Pangbourne, Berkshire, south east England.Highlight

Englefield House Garden

House & garden near Pangbourne

A terraced 1850s garden of stone staircases below an Elizabethan house.

4.3 km SW