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Accessible by Train Visitor facilities in Train services to and from The beautiful Goring and Streatley Goring and Streatley Chilterns Goring and Streatley station has lifts to all GWR trains from London Paddington, Slough North Wessex Downs platforms and a Radar key accessible toilet. Maidenhead, Reading, Didcot Parkway, Oxford and Thames Valley It’s also the hub of local bus services. and intermediate stations serve Goring and Streatley at half-hourly intervals on Mondays to Saturdays and hourly on Sundays Accessible Planning your journey Advance booking is essential if you travel with a wheelchair or mobility scooter. Booking assistance by train is simple. You only need to contact one train company and they will organise assistance for your whole journey. You can book by phone or online with GWR direct at: 0800 197 1329 or www.gwr.com or centrally a t : www.disabledpersons-railcard.co.uk/travel-assistance 0800 022 3720 (0845 60 50 600 textphone/minicom). During the morning station staff will help you board and leave the Within easy walking distance are an train. During the afternoon and accessible riverside with picnic areas, evening and on Sundays GWR will accessible countryside paths, historic arrange an accessible taxi to take churches, restaurants, cafés, pubs, a post you to and from the nearest staffed station at no extra cost. Lifts are available offi ce, a youth hostel, fully accessible hotel 24 hours-a-day. accommodation, an accessible surgery and pharmacy and shops selling groceries, Published in 2018 by MIGGS newspapers, household goods, antiques Mobility Issues Group for Goring and Streatley with funding from and gifts. In the historic centre of Goring Goring-on-Thames Parish Council and the there’s an ATM and an accessible toilet. Customer and Communities Improvement Fund and the support of There are also summer steamer services Take the Great Western Railway from Goring lock to and from Beale [email protected] www.facebook.com/MobilityIssuesGroupForGoringAndStreatley to Goring and Streatley wildlife park and Mapledurham House. Download this leafl et from: www.nationaltrail.co.uk/ridgeway/leafl ets/ A fully accessible station in picturesque countryside Goring Gap and its areas of outstanding natural beauty Find out more Goring and Streatley station is the gateway to Miles of towpaths and level or gently graded Eleven Chilterns AONB sites are featured the Goring Gap, a natural corridor carved footpaths, many accessible to wheelchairs in a Countryside Walks for All pack through the chalk some 12,000 years ago. and mobility scooters, enable the visitor comprising routes likely to With its fully accessible facilities the station is the ideal to explore the Thames and enjoy be suitable for people with starting point for visitors with limited mobility magnifi cent views of the unspoilt impaired mobility. See also: to sample the river and countryside scenery on its Oxfordshire and Miles without stiles. of the Thames valley. Arriving Berkshire banks. Linking these The North Wessex Downs by train across the graceful historic counties is the AONB promotes accessibility Brunel bridge at picturesque Goring bridge. for visitors of all abilities. Moulsford, or its sister Its adjacent river lock Long distance rambling bridge at Gatehampton, and nearby open spaces with mobility scooters offers a tantalising are ideally accessible can be enjoyed along the glimpse of the delights spots for the perfect wide track of the Ridgeway in store. summer picnic. Kenneth Goring bridge and lock heading west from Streatley along The twin villages Grahame and Jerome K Jerome Rectory Road. From here there are of Goring and Streatley found inspiration in the Goring Gap panoramic views of the Thames valley and are unique as a leisure for their classic tales, The Wind in the Willows the Chilterns beyond. The Thames Path and destination for weekenders and Three Men in a Boat. Oscar Wilde, who lived Ridgeway are being improved constantly to make and day trippers. They’re the Withymead Nature Reserve briefl y in Goring, was inspired to give local place them more accessible. The latest accessibility meeting point of the long distance names to six of his characters in An Ideal Husband. details can be found online at: linear trails called the Thames Path Today’s visitors fi nd inspiration in the scenery, the www.nationaltrail.co.uk/ridgeway and and Ridgeway National Trails and two Areas of warm welcome and the unrivalled hospitality. www.nationaltrail.co.uk/thamespath See also: Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs), the Chilterns For what else to see and do and where to stay in www.chilternsaonb.org the interactive map and the North Wessex Downs. Prominent among the Goring Gap go to: www.withymead.co.uk at: www.northwessexdowns.org.uk and their landmarks are Lardon Chase, Streatley Hill www.visitgoringandstreatley.co.uk the Oxfordshire countryside access map at: and other ancient, open landscapes protected www.bbowt.org.uk/reserves/Hartslock www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/countrysidemap by the National Trust. www.visitthames.co.uk/about-the-river/river- thames-locks/goring-lock Brunel‘s Gatehampton bridge and Goring Gap from Hartslock nature reserve.
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