Places to explore near Taplow StationTaplow

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

1.4 km W · spans 7 counties

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

1.4 km W · spans 7 counties

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

1.7 km NW

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

1.7 km NW

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

2.2 km SW

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

2.2 km SW

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

2.4 km SW · Berkshire

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

3.5 km S

Italianate mansion above grand Thames-side gardens.

3.9 km N

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

4.5 km NW · Berkshire

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

6.4 km SE · Berkshire

Largest occupied castle in the world.

6.9 km SE

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

7.3 km N

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

7.6 km W

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

7.8 km SW

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.

8.5 km NW · Buckinghamshire

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

9.2 km NW

Secluded woodland pub above Hurley in the Chilterns fringe.

9.2 km W

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

2.1 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.

2.4 km S · Buckinghamshire

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

4.1 km NE

Small redundant chapel of flint and chalk beside the Thames near Eton, kept by the Friends of Friendless Churches.

4.4 km SE

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

4.5 km N · spans 5 counties

Edward White's 1935 memorial gardens beside the churchyard that inspired Gray's 'Elegy'.

6 km E

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

6.4 km E

A National Trust place in Berkshire.

6.4 km W

A National Trust place in Berkshire.

6.6 km SE