Start : Marlow Railway Station (SL7 1NT) Grid ref. SU 855 865
(S) From the station, leave Station Approach to the right of the Marlow Donkey pub and follow signs to the town centre along Station Road. On the right just before the High St is 18th Century Marlow Place, home to George 11 When he was Prince of Wales.
(1) Turn left into High Street and cross the road at the bollards. Continue ahead across William Tierney Clark’s fine suspension bridge (A).
(2) Take the right fork to Bisham, go through the village.
(3) Keep straight on into Temple Lane at the road junction. There is no footpath so be aware of traffic, especially on the corners. Keep following Temple Lane as it bears right then left along the River Thames.
(4) At the junction with Bradenham lane, keep ahead on the footpath.
(5) After 800 m, at the footpath junction turn right to rejoin Thames Path just past the defunct Temple Bridge.
(6) Turn left along the riverbank to Hurley Lock.
(7) The path crosses the lock cut to the island and re-crosses to the towpath at Hurley. Here there are the ruins of a Benedictine Priory, a church and two pubs, the Rising Sun and the Olde Bell Inn.
(8) To continue the walk, follow the Thames Path along the riverbank for about two miles before passing through iron gates into Culham Court deer park.
(9) Bear right and follow the path across the park.
(10) Leave the deer park through a second iron gate and continue on a drive to Aston Road. The Flower Pot Inn is on the right down the road.
(11) Turn left up the road and soon turn right on the rising footpath at the back of houses. The path becomes a track between trees, then the countryside opens out.
(12) On reaching a lane turn left and at oak tree bear right on the footpath across the field, now on the Chiltern Way.
(13) Cross a track and go into the wood on the winding path (bluebells in season).
(14) Emerging from the wood keep in the same direction to join the lower path which gradually descends through trees. At the wood edge note the plaque to “the little dog with a big heart”.
(15) Bear slightly right across the field to hedge at the corner then head for the swing gate to the road at the field boundary.
(16) Turn left and right at the main road (A4130) to enter the famous regatta town of Henley-on-Thames.
(17) At the traffic lights turn left across the road and continue along the Thameside for the station. (S/E)