Basildon Park, Reading

Name: Basildon Park
Address: Lower Basildon, Reading, RG8 9NR, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 118 976 7360

#14 among attractions in Reading

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Basildon Park is a country house situated 2 miles south of Goring-on-Thames and Streatley in Berkshire, between the villages of Upper Basildon and Lower Basildon. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building. The house was built between 1776 and 1783 for Sir Francis Sykes and designed by John Carr in the Palladian style at a time when Palladianism was giving way to the newly fashionable neoclassicism. Thus, the interiors are in a neoclassical "Adamesque" style. ()

Alternative names: Architectural style: NeoclassicismCoordinates: 51°29'57"N, 1°7'17"W

Address

Lower BasildonReading RG8 9NR United Kingdom

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+44 118 976 7360

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Basildon Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Goring & Streatley Golf Club, Mapledurham Watermill, Mapledurham House, Beale Wildlife Park.

2.4 miNW
Golf
Goring & Streatley Golf Club, Goring and Streatley
62 min walk • Goring & Streatley Golf Club is a golf course in the village of Streatley, in the English county of Berkshire. It takes its name partly from that village, and partly from the adjoining village of Goring-on-Thames in the county of Oxfordshire. The course adjoins the National Trust properties of Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down.
3.7 miE
Museum
Mapledurham Watermill, Reading
95 min walk • Mapledurham Watermill is a historic watermill in the civil parish of Mapledurham in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is driven by the head of water created by Mapledurham Lock and Weir, on the River Thames.
3.8 miE
Museum, History museum, Historical place
Mapledurham House, Henley-on-Thames
98 min walk • Mapledurham House is an Elizabethan stately home located in the civil parish of Mapledurham in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building, first listed on 24 October 1951.
0.6 miE
Zoo, Nature and wildlife, Park
Beale Wildlife Park, Reading
15 min walk • Beale Wildlife Park is situated by the River Thames, between the villages of Pangbourne and Lower Basildon in Berkshire, England.
1.8 miSE
Bridge
Whitchurch Bridge, Pangbourne
46 min walk • Whitchurch Bridge is a toll road bridge over the Thames in England. It links the villages of Pangbourne, Berkshire, and Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire – crossing the river's reach above Mapledurham Lock just downstream of Whitchurch Lock.
2.4 miN
Bridge
Cleeve Lock, Goring-on-Thames
60 min walk • Cleeve Lock is a lock on the River Thames, in Oxfordshire, England. It is located just upstream of Goring and Streatley villages, on the eastern side of the river within the village of Goring.
4.2 miN
Bridge
Moulsford Railway Bridge, Chiltern Hills
107 min walk • Moulsford Railway Bridge, also known locally as "Four Arches" bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges located a little to the north of Moulsford and South Stoke in Oxfordshire, UK.
0.9 miN
Bridge
Gatehampton Railway Bridge, Goring-on-Thames
24 min walk • Gatehampton Railway Bridge, otherwise referred to as Gatehampton Viaduct, is a railway bridge carrying the Great Western Main Line over the River Thames in Lower Basildon, Berkshire, England.
2.7 miSW
Park
Ashampstead Common, Hartslock
69 min walk • Ashampstead Common is a common in the English county of Berkshire, within the civil parish of Ashampstead. The common lies north of the M4 motorway, near to Ashampstead, Lower Basildon and Yattendon.
4.2 miSE
Tower
Wilder's Folly
108 min walk • Wilder's Folly is a folly and dovecote at Nunhide, near the village of Sulham in the English county of Berkshire.
4.2 miNE
Gothic Revival architecture
Braziers Park, Chiltern Hills
107 min walk • Braziers Park is a Grade II* country house and estate on the edge of Ipsden - a small village near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England - housing a secular intentional community and the School of Integrative Social Research. It has also been used as a film location for large- and small-budget films.