Marlow things to do

How about some more information? When are you going? For how long? What are your interests? How many people are going?

One other thing; you might like to watch the The Marlow Murders on PBS. It is filmed entirely in Marlow and has some lovely shots of the town.

I would recommend a walk along the Thames Path- you could do quite a nice walk to Henley.

Marlow is a beautiful town by itself.

The Thames Path is lovely in that area - either towards Henley or towards Cookham. In Cookham, there is the Stanley Spencer gallery. It is a beautiful village, and lots of walking opportunities, tearooms, pubs.

If you have a car, Cliveden and Grey's Court. Without a car, I would still make some effort to see Cliveden - perhaps train to Bourne End and taxi from there to Cliveden (pre-book return trip).

A lot to do if you can get to High Wycombe.

There is a bus to High Wycombe every 15 minutes on a weekday, every 30 minutes on a Sunday.- https://passenger-line-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/carouselbuses/CSLB/850-timetable-20250831-e422df89.pdf

While at Cliveden do visit the War Memorial Cemetery in the grounds- dating from when the house was used in WW1 for the recuperation of wounded, and also used by the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital (later the No 15 Canadian General Hospital) in Taplow- there are 42 WW1 burials there of whom 28 are Canadian (the others are two American also British, Australian and New Zealand troops). There is also one Canadian and one British burial of WW2.

There is also a memorial in the grounds to two WW1 war poets- Julian Henry Francis Grenfell and Gerald William Grenfell, killed within two months of each other in 1915.

In season Salters also do boat trips on the Thames from Marlow- https://salterssteamers.co.uk/short-trips/#marlow-40-minute

If you have walked to Henley there is the #850 bus back (see previous post) every 30 minutes,
or the train down the branch line from Henley to Twyford, change, one stop on the Elizabeth Line towards London to Maidenhead, change, train back to Marlow

"A lot to do if you can get to High Wycombe"

I live less than 10 miles from HW and I was surpirsed to read this. (I've always though of HW as a pimple on the backside of the universe, but I digress.)

The two most interesting things in the area are Hughenden Manor (where Queen Victoria's Prime Minister Disraeli lived) and the 'Hell Fire Caves' - artificial caves built to provide work for the unemployed where wealthy men chased young ladies around in the dark.

Unfortunately, neither of these are in the centre of HW. I haven't checked, but i'd guess Hughenden would be a bus ride plus an uphill walk. The caves would be a longish walk or a bus ride but these are, in my view, much less interesting than Hughenden Manor.

BillS - lol!!!

I guess I meant there were things to do connecting through High Wycombe, not in HW itself. For example, Hughenden (as already mentioned), Bekonscot model village & railway, Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden. Lot of hikes in the Chilterns. I was throwing out ideas as OP has not mentioned any particular interests.

Hughenden (as already mentioned), Bekonscot model village & railway, Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden

Hughenden you reach on the half hourly bus 300 heading for Aylesbury
Bekonscot (at Beaconsfield)- either one stop towards London Marylebone on Chiltern Railways, or the half hourly Bus 31
Great Missenden- hourly bus 41 (heading for Amersham Station on the Metropolitan Line from London/Chiltern Railways towards London and Aylesbury).

All these buses and the 850 are run by Carousel Buses who have an all ticket for £12 per day, £39 a week- a network which includes Heathrow Airport and Windsor (both from High Wycombe) and Hemel Hempstead (also from High Wycombe) (on the West Coast Main Line to Euston-5 stops from Bletchley and 3 stops from Watford Junction, for Harry Potter) .
The Heathrow Bus runs 22 hours a day and takes just over an hour, so barely longer than the Piccadilly line into Central London