Start & Finish: Shiplake Station, Lower Shiplake, Henley-on-Thames RG9 3LF
Distance: 13.1 km (8.1 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 105m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): The Chiltern Way Berkshire Loop, Thames Path, The Wokingham Way
Other routes touched (cycle): Chilterns Cycleway
Pubs / Cafes on route: The Baskerville (Shiplake), The Flowing Spring (at 6.2km), Waterwheel Bar at The Mill, Sonning Eye
Map: OS Explorer Map (171) Chiltern Hills West, Henley-on-Thames and Wallingford
Links: Shiplake, Shiplake Station, Binfield Heath, Sonning Eye

For our latest Thames Path walk in the Chilterns we picked up the route at Shiplake Station. From here we retraced our steps from the Henley to Shiplake Circular, returning up Northfield Avenue, across the A4155 Reading Road and onto the Chiltern Way Berkshire Loop.

Follow the Berkshire Loop for 1.8km to High Wood where you’ll leave the Loop and take the south path at a split. Follow this to Binfield Health Village Centre, then take Dunsden Way south for 800m. Be careful here, it’s a quiet road but there’s no pavement so watch out for cars. After Binfield Heath Church take a left off the road and onto a footpath, following it downhill for 1km until the Flowing Spring pub on the A4155. Cross the main road carefully and continue south along Spring Lane. Cross over the B478 Playhatch Road when you reach it and follow the road through the village, returning back to the B478 at the river.

This is a good place to stop for a rest with a few pubs and restaurants around the bridges. We chose the Waterwheel Bar in The Mill as it looked a bit more walker-friendly than the other posher places. From The Mill, cross over the B478 and over the wooden footbridge to the other side of the river. You’ll now be on the Thames Path which you can follow for 5.4km back to Shiplake Station.