Furze Platt to Cookham
A station-to-station walkBerkshireSouth East England
One of the most scenic stretches of the Thames Path — Boulter's Lock, Ray Mill Island, the wooded slopes of Cliveden and Battlemead wetlands.
Maidenhead and Cookham Commons: A historic landscape full of natural beauty (National Trust).
The River Thames: England's best-known river, whose towpath (the Thames Path National Trail) carries long stretches of nearly every walk in this set.
Ray Mill Island: a landscaped Thames island by Boulter's Lock with gardens and a boathouse cafe.
Cliveden: a National Trust estate of wooded slopes and gardens rising above the Thames, famous as the setting of the Profumo affair (National Trust; 4h to visit).
Stanley Spencer Gallery: a gallery in Cookham village devoted to the artist Stanley Spencer, who lived and painted here.
Lunch: Boathouse cafe on Ray Mill Island; the White Oak and Old Swan Uppers pubs in Cookham.
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Walk details: Round Reading Walk.