Water Oakley is a hamlet on the River Thames in the civil parish of Bray, in the Windsor and Maidenhead district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England.

[1] It is the location of both Bray Film Studios and the Oakley Court Hotel.

However, the name 'Oakley' is derived from the Old English ac-leah which translates as 'a clearing in an oak wood'.

Local folklore suggests a Saxon church there was demolished around 1293 to build St Michael's Church in Bray.

Water Oakley has a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) just to the north of the village, called Bray Pennyroyal Field.