Places to explore near Bourne End StationBourne End

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

0.3 km SW · spans 7 counties

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

0.3 km W · spans 7 counties

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

1.1 km NW

Thames-side village of Stanley Spencer, who painted its riverbank and church and is remembered in a gallery on the high street.

1.9 km S · Berkshire

Italianate mansion above grand Thames-side gardens.

2.6 km SE

Microbrewery at Marlow Bottom with a beer shop and tours, brewing real ales since the early 1990s.

4.1 km W

Georgian Thames town below the Chilterns with a suspension bridge, an all-saints church by the weir and a high street of pubs and independent shops.

4.6 km W · Buckinghamshire

Small Thames island park at Maidenhead by Boulter's Lock, with riverside gardens, an aviary and a café.

4.8 km S

Famous Thames lock and weir at Maidenhead, once the busiest on the river and a fashionable Edwardian boating spot.

4.9 km S

The oldest model village in the world, a 1920s miniature landscape of towns and railways in the gardens at Beaconsfield.

6.1 km NE

Heston Blumenthal's experimental restaurant in the Thames-side village of Bray.

7.7 km S

Heston Blumenthal's historic village pub, a Michelin-starred dining destination named best pub for food in 2024.

7.7 km S

Riverside village of flint cottages and a Norman church, better known now for two three-Michelin-star kitchens by the Thames.

7.7 km S · Berkshire

Tiny one-man village pub-restaurant in the Chilterns near Maidenhead.

8.1 km SW

Secluded woodland pub above Hurley in the Chilterns fringe.

9.2 km SW

Disraeli's red-brick country home and garden.

9.2 km N

Palladian house with lake and hilltop follies.

9.6 km NW

National Trust village of a single old street below West Wycombe Park, the Dashwood mausoleum and golden-balled church crowning the hill above the Hellfire Caves.

9.6 km NW · Buckinghamshire

Purpose-built rowing lake by the Thames near Eton, the 2012 Olympic rowing venue, ringed by a public parkland loop.

9.8 km S

Network of chalk tunnels dug into West Wycombe hill for Sir Francis Dashwood's Hellfire Club, running some 260 metres underground.

10 km NW

The Chiltern Society's grand loop through four counties of beechwood and chalk, grown from a Millennium project into 177 miles.

0.9 km SW · spans 5 counties

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

5 km SE

Tom Kerridge's Marlow pub, the first in Britain to hold two Michelin stars, keeping the feel of a low-beamed local.

5.1 km W

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

5.2 km NE

Rambling ancient freehouse at Forty Green near Beaconsfield, claiming roots back some nine centuries, full of dark beams and old salvage.

5.5 km NE

Old coaching town on the London road with a broad four-part high street of Georgian inns, the resting place of Edmund Burke and G. K. Chesterton.

5.9 km NE · Buckinghamshire

Riverside Roux restaurant-with-rooms at Bray, three Michelin stars over a terrace where boats moor at the water's edge.

7.6 km S

Coaching inn beside Hurley's priory, claiming roots to 1135 with a Norman doorway, sanctuary bell and rambling gardens.

7.7 km SW