Sonning
Sonning is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, on the River Thames, east of Reading. The village was described by Jerome K. Jerome in his book Three Men in a Boat as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,630 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham in the English county of Berkshire
- Also known as: “Sonning-on-Thames” and “Sonning, Berkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Andrew’s Church, Sonning and Bull Inn.
St Andrew’s Church, Sonning
Church
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church is Church of England parish church in a central position in the village of Sonning, close to the River Thames, in the English county of Berkshire.
Bull Inn
Pub
Photo: ad acta, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Bull Inn, also known as The Bull at Sonning or just The Bull, is a historic public house — now also a restaurant and hotel — in the centre of the village of Sonning in Berkshire, England.
Great House at Sonning
Hotel
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Great House at Sonning is a hotel and restaurant with a riverside garden on the River Thames near Sonning Bridge at Sonning, Berkshire, England. It is possible for patrons to moor along the towpath running past the hotel on the river.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonning Eye and Charvil.
Sonning Eye
Hamlet
Photo: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sonning Eye is a hamlet on the River Thames in the Sonning Common ward of South Oxfordshire, England, in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden, at what is, since 1974, the southernmost tip of Oxfordshire.
Charvil
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charvil is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. The village is 5 miles from Reading on the A4 road to Maidenhead, between Sonning and Twyford. The 2021 Census recorded the parish's population as 3,158. The area was mostly farmland until the 1950s.
Playhatch
Hamlet
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Playhatch is a hamlet in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, England, about 2 miles northeast of Reading, Berkshire. It is situated immediately north of the junction of the A4155 and the B478.
Sonning
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Sonning, Wokingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.47359° or 51° 28′ 25″ northLongitude
-0.90991° or 0° 54′ 36″ westPopulation
1,630Elevation
141 feet (43 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SQNOpen location code
9C3XF3FR+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 558816949OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sonning” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنينغ”
- Basque: “Sonning”
- Bengali: “সোনিং”
- Bulgarian: “Сонинг”
- Catalan: “Sonning”
- Cebuano: “Sonning”
- Chinese: “Sonning”
- Chinese: “桑宁”
- Chinese: “桑寧”
- Chinese: “頌寧”
- Chinese: “颂宁”
- Dutch: “Sonning”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سنينج”
- French: “Sonning”
- German: “Sonning”
- Gujarati: “સોનિંગ”
- Irish: “Sonning”
- Italian: “Sonning”
- Japanese: “ソニング”
- Kannada: “ಸೋನಿಂಗ್”
- Korean: “소닝”
- Kurdish: “Sonning”
- Ladin: “Sonning”
- Latin: “Sonning”
- Lithuanian: “Soningas”
- Macedonian: “Сонинг”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sonning”
- Persian: “سانینگ”
- Polish: “Sonning”
- Portuguese: “Sonning”
- Russian: “Соннинг”
- Slovenian: “Sonning, Berkshire, Anglija”
- South Azerbaijani: “سانینق”
- Spanish: “Sonning”
- Swedish: “Sonning”
- Tamil: “சொன்னிங்”
- Telugu: “సోన్నింగ్”
- Turkish: “Sonning”
- Urdu: “سوننینج”
- Welsh: “Sonning”
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