Twyford is known by local travellers for its cross-roads and associated traffic lights. Linger here for a while and you will see a good cross-section of life passing by.
Walk west a few yards along the 'High Street' past the former butchers shop with meat hooks still in place and you will come to a typical Berkshire pub The Duke of Wellington. Just beyond this is a former Victorian boys school and schoolmasters house. The house is now let as two flats, while the school is used by the village amateur drama group for rehearsals. The school playground, where small boys used to watch steam trains passing on their way to Henley, is now a car park.
Further down the main road, at the bottom of the hill is the site of the former silk mill. Now developed as luxury flats, you can walk through this area into a large nature reserve on the site of a former gravel pit.
Returning to the main road and continuing a short distance further west and you reach The Waggon and Horses, a very old pub. Close by on the other side of the road, you can just see the remains of one of the two fords that gave Twyford its name. A ford is the shallow point a road crosses a waterway, in this case the River Loddon.
