Cholsey is a large village near the market town of Wallingford, with the Parish Church of St Mary's situated on the rising ground to the west of the present centre of the village. Agatha Christie lived in the Parish and she and her husband Sir Max Mallowan are buried in the churchyard.
The railway station is on the mainline, and at one end is the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway Preservation Society line, which operates many weekends of the year. (Steam trains and Thomas the Tank Engine are particular attractions.)
