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This site is listed in the British Towns and Villages Encyclopaedia of Great Britain and we can be found in the entry for Goring.

Goring Parish Council is not responsible for the content of other websites.

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Medical Non-Emergency Number

Medical Non-Emergency Number

When it's not a medical emergency, dial 111

Police Non-Emergency Number

Police Non-Emergency Number

When it is not right to dial 999, dial 101

Police - Neighbourhood News

Police - Neighbourhood News

Read the neighbourhood updates.

Thames Valley Police - Crime Updates

Thames Valley Police - Crime Updates

Sign-up to receive regular crime update emails and find out who's got banged-up for what.

Whitchurch Bridge Closure - Diversion Signing (Strategic)

Whitchurch Bridge Closure - Diversion Signing (Strategic)

Strategic diversion signing - September 2013 to February 2014

Whitchurch Bridge Closure - Diversion Signing (Local)

Whitchurch Bridge Closure - Diversion Signing (Local)

Local diversion signing - September 2013 to February 2014

Potholes Hotline

Potholes Hotline

Whether your car's been damaged by a pothole and you want to know how to make a claim or you just want to report a poor piece of road.

Oxfordshire Highways - Factsheets

Oxfordshire Highways - Factsheets

Fact sheets cover 33 topics, including temporary traffic orders, direction signs, parking places for disabled people, access (dropped kerb) applications, speed and weigjt limits, safety cameras, salt/grit bins, traffic calming, planting on the highway, road surface dressing, winter maintenance, externally funded traffic schemes and road mirrors. - what the county council can and does do on everything to do with roads

Road Works in Oxfordshire

Road Works in Oxfordshire

Current and planned. Find out how and where to avoid delays from the Oxfordshire County Council roadworks database

Local Services

Local Services

Click on the heading or image then use your postcode to find information on council services relating to your home or place of work. You can see the normal bin collection days and changes in bank holiday weeks; also, your nearest waste disposal and recycling centre, nearest leisure centre, how to contact your local councillors, current council tax rates and any planning matter relating to the property. It's all in one place.

Planning Applications

Planning Applications

Search by location, date or reference number on the SODC website. All applications for properties in the parish of Goring are referred for consultation to Goring Parish Council. The Planning Committee normally meets once a fortnight, on Tuesdays.

Train Services

Train Services

Train services to and from Goring & Streatley station. Services operated by First Great Western.

Bus Services

Bus Services

Bus travel - local service to and from Goring.

Door-to-Door Shopping Bus to Reading

Door-to-Door Shopping Bus to Reading

Return, door-to-door bus service for Reading

Free Parking

Free Parking

Parking is free for one hour in the Wheel Orchard car park, 50yds from the village shops. The entrance is alongside the Catherine Wheel pub in Station Road.

Pedestrian Route

Pedestrian Route

Pedestrian Route from Goring and Streatley railway station to Thames river and lock. This topographical map is will be especially appreciated by visitors with limited mobility and requiring large print.

Oxfordshire Consultation Tracker

Oxfordshire Consultation Tracker

Oxfordshire Consultation Tracker is a database of all county and district consultations. Using the consultation tracker you can:
• find out when the consultations are taking place
• find out who to contact to have your say
• view the archive of consultations and research reports.

Street name plates - report damage

Street name plates - report damage

This form enables you to report a damaged or dilapidated street name plate to South Oxfordshire District Council. It's best if you can attach a photograph.

Abandoned vehicle report form

Abandoned vehicle report form

Abandoned vehicles should be reported to South Oxfordshire District Council

South Oxfordshire District Council

South Oxfordshire District Council

SODC is Goring's "parent" local authority. It is responsible for social housing, planning, recycling, waste disposal, bus passes and licensing.

Oxfordshire County Council

Oxfordshire County Council

OCC maintains the roads and footpaths in Goring. It is also responsible for parking restrictions (yellow lines).

Goring and District Twinning Association

Goring and District Twinning Association

Goring is twinned with Bellême in Normandy, France (pictured).

Salters river boat services from Goring

Salters river boat services from Goring

Services between Reading and Wallingford call at Goring lock between May and September.

Thames path national trail

Thames path national trail

Goring's place on the Thames path, which "follows England's best known river for 184 miles (294km) as it meanders from its source in the Cotswolds through several rural counties and on through the bustle of the City of London".

Health walks

Health walks

Goring Gap Health Walks are one of the pioneering health walk groups and have been "running" (they say) for over eight years.

Henley Standard

Henley Standard

Our weekly newspaper.

Reading Chronicle

Reading Chronicle

Our other weekly newspaper.

Electoral registration

Electoral registration

Where to register as an elector or apply for a postal vote if you live in Goring

Chilterns area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB)

Chilterns area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB)

Depending on whether you are travelling east or west, the Chilterns AONB begins or ends at Goring gap.