Chiltern Walks: Goring & Streatley Station Circular
Start & Finish: Goring Station, Goring, Reading, RG8 0ES
Distance: 8.9 km (5.5 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 155m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): The Chiltern Way Southern Extension
Other routes touched (cycle): N/A
Pubs / Cafes on route: None, although there are several in Goring Town Centre close to the start & finish
Map: OS Explorer Map (171) Chiltern Hills West, Henley-on-Thames and Wallingford
Links: Goring-on-Thames, Goring & Streatley Station
For the latest in our series of ~10k walks from Chilterns Railway Stations we went to the far west to Goring. Goring & Streatley is the only station on the GWR mainline that’s within the Chilterns. Both the stations either side of it, Pangbourne and Cholsey are on the other side of the Thames and outside of the AONB. The guidance below will help you navigate but don’t use it as a fully accurate turn-by-turn guide. Always take a map and/or a GPX route and prepare well for the weather and terrain.
From the start at Goring and Streatley Station, walk north toward the road bridge over the railway and take a right onto Farm Road. From here you’ll follow the Chiltern Way Southern Extension through housing, then wooded paths, steadily climbing away from the river. Shortly after Wroxhill Woods, take a right hand footpath off Beech Lane at a farm entrance. You’ll now leave the Chiltern Way and will be heading south across farmland.
At a path intersection take the left hand path and continue down to Elvendon Lane. Take a left onto the lane, following it easterly for 100m before taking a right hand path. Follow this path in a south-easterly direction, carefully crossing Reading Road. Continue south until you meet Blackbird’s Bottom (a lane). Take a right onto Blackbird’s bottom and follow it in a westerly direction until you meet the Chiltern Way again. Follow the Chiltern Way until you arrive back at Goring & Streatley Station.
