Places to explore near Cookham StationCookham

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

1 km NE · spans 7 counties

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

1 km E · Berkshire

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

1.1 km NE · spans 7 counties

Italianate mansion above grand Thames-side gardens.

2.3 km E

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

3 km N

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

3.1 km SE

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

3.1 km SE

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.

4.1 km NW · Buckinghamshire

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

4.5 km NW

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

5.7 km S

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

5.7 km S

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

5.7 km S · Berkshire

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

6 km SW

Secluded woodland pub above Hurley in the Chilterns fringe.

7.3 km SW

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

8.2 km SE

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

8.2 km NE

Cricket-green village pub near Maidenhead run by chef Dominic Chapman.

8.7 km SW

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

1 km N · spans 5 counties

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

4.4 km W

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

5.1 km E

A National Trust place in Berkshire.

5.6 km SW

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

5.6 km S

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

6.2 km W

Thames village grown up around a Benedictine priory, with a lock, riverside campsite and the ancient Olde Bell inn.

6.2 km W · Berkshire

Thames-side village near Eton keeping Dorney Court, a Tudor manor, and a small riverside church, with the rowing lake on former farmland alongside.

6.9 km SE · Buckinghamshire

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

7.5 km NE