Places to explore near Marlow StationMarlow

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.

0.5 km SW · spans 7 counties

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.

0.7 km W · Buckinghamshire

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

1.2 km NE

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

1.7 km N

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

4.2 km E · Berkshire

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

5.4 km S

Italianate mansion above grand Thames-side gardens.

5.6 km E

Secluded woodland pub above Hurley in the Chilterns fringe.

6 km SW

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

6.2 km SE

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

6.2 km SE

Estate village of brick and flint cottages round a square and pump, in a dry valley off the Thames, a favourite film location below the beech hangers.

7.1 km W · Buckinghamshire

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

8.3 km SE

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

8.3 km SE

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.

8.3 km N · Buckinghamshire

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

8.3 km SE · Berkshire

Palladian house with lake and hilltop follies.

8.4 km N

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

8.7 km N

Hexagonal flint-walled roofless mausoleum crowning West Wycombe Hill beside St Lawrence's golden ball, built for the Dashwood family.

8.9 km N

Disraeli's red-brick country home and garden.

9.3 km N

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

9.4 km S

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

9.7 km NE

White smock mill on the hill above Turville, familiar as the home of Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

9.9 km NW

Brick-and-flint hamlet in a steep Chilterns bottom, a hilltop windmill above it, much filmed for The Vicar of Dibley and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

10 km NW · Buckinghamshire

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

1.2 km W

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

1.6 km SE · spans 5 counties

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

4.1 km SW

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

4.2 km SW · Berkshire

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

5.4 km W

A National Trust place in Berkshire.

5.8 km S

Small brick country pub near Frieth in the beech woods above the Hambleden valley, a classic Chilterns walkers' stop.

7.1 km NW

Brick-and-flint inn with rooms in the estate village of Hambleden, a walkers' stop in the dry valley above the Thames.

7.1 km W

A hill in Berkshire.

8 km SW