Goring-on-Thames (or Goring) is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England.

Its riverside plain encloses the residential area, including a high street with shops, pubs and restaurants.

Goring & Streatley railway station lies on the Great Western Main Line, providing trains between London, Reading, and Didcot.

The village church is dedicated to St Thomas Becket with a nave that was built within 50 years of the saint's death, in the early 13th century, along with a later bell tower.

[4] The local bus service between Goring and Wallingford is run by a Goring-based community interest company, Going Forward Buses, which was established in December 2016.

[6] The name Goring first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Garinges, then as Garingies in a charter once held in the British Museum.

[15] The Catholic Church of Our Lady and St John the Apostle was designed by the architect William Ravenscroft and built in 1898.

[citation needed] In the summer of 1893, Oscar Wilde stayed at Ferry House in Goring with Lord Alfred Douglas.

While there, Wilde began writing his play An Ideal Husband, which includes a main character named Lord Goring.

An enlarged Ferry Cottage became the retirement home of Sir Arthur Harris, wartime leader of RAF Bomber Command, from 1953 until his death in 1984.