Across the river is Goring & Streatley railway station and the village cluster adjoins a lock and weir.

This Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is topped by the 87 mi (140 km) The Ridgeway path, which crosses the Thames at Goring and Streatley Bridge.

The two villages are connected by Goring and Streatley Bridge, with its adjacent lock and weir, and are often considered as a single settlement.

Neolithic tools have been found at the base of Lough Down and Bronze Age artefacts in the village.

Two-thirds of Streatley used to be owned by the Morrell family of brewers from Oxford, whose resistance to change enabled the village to withstand the railway line and extra houses that went to Goring-on-Thames.

Besides the riverside village of Streatley, the parish covers an area of the Berkshire Downs to the west, and includes the small cluster of dwellings named Stichens Green.

Its garden is the unusual burial site for a monk and a nun executed in 1440 for "misconduct" and contains an ancient yew tree.

[13] A torchlight procession of villagers and visitors merges with another stream from Goring each Christmas Eve, in a night-time spectacle that continues onto Streatley Recreation Ground for a carol service.

[14] The village is the subject of the poem "A Streatley Sonata" by Joseph Ashby-Sterry[15] composed in the late 19th century: And when you're here, I’m told that you Should mount the hill and see the view; And gaze and wonder, if you'd do Its merits most completely; The air is clear, the day is fine, The prospect is, I know, divine – But most distinctly I decline To climb the hill at Streatley But from the Hill, I understand You gaze across rich pasture-land; And fancy you see Oxford and P'r'aps Wallingford and Wheatley: Upon the winding Thames you gaze, And, though the view’s beyond all praise, I'd rather much sit here and laze

Than scale the Hill at Streatley!The village is mentioned in Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat: We had intended to push on to Wallingford that day, but the sweet smiling face of the river here lured us to linger for a while; and so we left our boat at the bridge, and went up into Streatley, and lunched at the Bull, much to Montmorency's satisfaction....

It is an ancient place, Streatley, dating back, like most river-side towns and villages, to British and Saxon times.

Goring is not nearly so pretty a little spot to stop at as Streatley, if you have your choice; but it is passing fair enough in its way, and is nearer the railway in case you want to slip off without paying your hotel bill.