Public art & sculpture · South East England
Spiders web
In or near Sonning.
Spiders web — a public art in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
Andrew Smith — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Reading · 3.2 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
Getting there & planning your visit
To visit Spiders Web in Reading, the nearest railway station is Reading, located 3.2 km away. Entry is free.
About
Spiders web is a public art located in england-south-east, United Kingdom. Sourced from OpenStreetMap (ODbL licence); see local listings for visitor information, opening hours and admission details.
Photo gallery
Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Chilterns
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Spiders on a Web is a 1900 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a single shot close-up of two spiders trapped in an enclosure (not on a web as indicated in the title). The film is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "less formally ambitious" than the director's "groundbreaking multiple close-up study Grandma's Reading Glass (1900), made the same year, but is nonetheless, "one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography, predating Percy Smith's insect studies by a decade."
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 51.4865, -0.9587
- District
- Reading
- Parish
- Reading, unparished area
- Postcode
- RG4 8XR
- Parliamentary constituency
- Reading Central
- Nearest railway station
- Reading — 3.2 km
- Official site
- www.reading.gov.uk
Sources
- osm: node/6432743429 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Spiders on a Web (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Spiders web?
- Spiders web is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode RG4 8XR), in the parish of Reading, unparished area.
- What is Spiders web?
- Spiders web — a public art in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Spiders web?
- The nearest railway station is Reading, about 3.2 km away. Drivers can use postcode RG4 8XR.
- Is Spiders web a protected site?
- Yes — Spiders web is part of the Chilterns National Landscape (AONB).
- Is Spiders web free to visit?
- Yes, Spiders web is free to enter.
- How do I get to Spiders web?
- The nearest railway station is Reading, about 3.2 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode RG4 8XR.