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Travel Directions
To Cumberland Lodge
All visitors are asked to enter the park via the Bishopsgate entrance
From the North via M1: Follow signs for the M25 at Junction 6. Leave the M25 at Junction 13 as below.
From the Midlands via M40: Leave at Junction 4 (A404, Marlow and Maidenhead) and continue along A404 until it joins the M4 at Junction 9. See directions below for the approach via the M4.
From the West via M4: Leave M4 at Junction 6, Windsor. 3rd exit off roundabout to Windsor. 2nd exit off each of the next five roundabouts, following the signs for A308 Old Windsor/Staines. Drive through Old Windsor, pass "The Harvester" pub on the right, and turn right at mini-roundabout up Priest Hill. Turn right on brow of hill into Castle Hill Road and right at T-junction into Bishopsgate Road. See boxed section under "London via M4 and M25" for final directions.
From the London via the M4 and M25: Leave at Junction 4b and join the M25 following signs for Gatwick. Leave the M25 at junction 13, taking the second exit off roundabout signposted A30 Egham, Bagshot. Continue as in boxed section below.
From the South via M25: Leave at Junction 13 taking the fourth exit off the roundabout which is signposted A30 Egham, Bagshot.. Continue as in boxed section below.
Leaving the M25 junction 13 roundabout, the link road to the A30 crosses the Thames alongside the M25, joining the A30 at the Runnymede roundabout. Take 2nd (Camberley) exit off the roundabout along A30 passing one more roundabout and climbing Egham Hill. At the top, just beyond the entrance to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, there is a crossroads with traffic lights. Turn right into St. Jude's Road, signposted A328 Englefield Green. At the end of Englefield Green (just past S-bend), turn left into Bishopsgate Road. At the end of this road, just pas the 'Fox & Hounds' pub, is the entrance to Windsor Great Park. If there is a warden on the gate, stop and let him know where you are going. If not, drive in. There is a sign to Cumberland Lodge at the crossroads just beyond. Turn left. After after half a mile there is another sign: turn half right for the Lodge. |
From the South via M3: Leave at Junction3 signposted Bagshot,Bracknell.Follow signs for A30, London. Continue over level crossing at Sunningdale and the Wheatsheaf Hotel at Virginia Water. After a further 11/2 miles turn left into St.Jude's Road (A328) to Englefield Green. See the second paragraph of the box above for final directions.
TRAINS There are fast trains from London (Waterloo) to Egham (not Windsor) approximately on the hour and half hour. Additional trains in the rush hour. Journey time approximately 30 minutes. From Reading and the west there is a direct service Reading-Egham. Egham station is 3 miles from Cumberland Lodge.
TAXIS There is a taxi waiting area at Egham Station and a taxi office near the traffic lights on Station Road, 200 yards from the station. Otherwise telephone: All Point Cars (0784) 433 300; Arrow Cars (0784) 436 533; A2B (0784) 432 222; Egham Taxis (0784) 433 933/434 170; Runnymede Cars (0784) 436 162/3.
AIR Heathrow Airport is about 20 minutes by car. Always book a taxi from the above list (half the cost of an airport taxi). From Gatwick there is a choice of the train into London and then via Waterloo to Egham (buy through ticket for Egham at Gatwick) or the airport link coach to Heathrow and from there by taxi. A taxi from Gatwick is expensive.
