Places to explore near Furze Platt StationFurze Platt

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

1.9 km E · spans 7 counties

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

2 km E

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

2 km E · spans 7 counties

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

2.1 km E

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

3.3 km SE

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

3.3 km SE

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

3.3 km SE · Berkshire

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

3.3 km NE · Berkshire

Italianate mansion above grand Thames-side gardens.

4 km NE

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

4.4 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.

5.5 km NW · Buckinghamshire

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

5.6 km NW

Secluded woodland pub above Hurley in the Chilterns fringe.

6 km W

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

6.2 km SW

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

6.3 km SE

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

6.5 km NW

Thames town whose High Street of old shop fronts runs from Windsor Bridge to Henry VI's Eton College

9.6 km SE · Berkshire

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

2.1 km NW · spans 5 counties

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

3.3 km SE

A National Trust place in Berkshire.

3.5 km SW

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

5 km SE · Buckinghamshire

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

5.6 km NW

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

5.6 km W · Berkshire

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

5.8 km W

Biodynamic and organic garden of naturalistic borders, walled beds and grazed parkland near White Waltham, often called Berkshire's best-kept secret.

5.8 km SW

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

6 km NE