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Abinger

Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.

Abinger
Abinger · SuzanneKn at en.wikipedia
The place

Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Abinger

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Leith Hill

    Leith Hill in southern England is the highest summit of the Greensand Ridge, approximately 6.7 km southwest of Dorking, Surrey and 40.5 km southwest of central London. It reaches 294 m above sea level, and is the second highest point in southeast England, after Walbury Hill in southwest Berkshire, high).

    3.9 km · hill in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Abinger Castle

    Abinger Castle is an earthwork motte and bailey that was topped with a small wooden fortress. It is located in Abinger Common, between Guildford and Dorking in Surrey, England.

    300 m · castle in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mullard Space Science Laboratory

    The UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory is the largest university-based space research group in the UK. MSSL is part of the Department of Space and Climate Physics at University College London, one of the first universities in the world to conduct space research. Since its establishment, as of July 2025, MSSL has participated in 71 satellite missions, ten of which remain in operation, and with seven more in development.

    3.2 km · United Kingdom's largest university space research group · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wotton House

    Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England. Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.

    1.6 km · country house hotel in Wotton, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Joldwynds

    Joldwynds is a modernist style house in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, England, designed by architect Oliver Hill for Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene. Completed in 1932, it is a Grade II listed building.

    2.9 km · house in Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St James, Abinger

    St James's Church stands on Abinger Lane in Abinger Common, a small village within the civil parish of Abinger in Surrey, south-eastern England. The church was built in the early 12th century and then rebuilt around 1220, and is today a grade II* listed building.

    400 m · church in Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Abinger Common War Memorial

    Abinger Common War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of Abinger Common in Surrey, south-eastern England. The memorial was destroyed by a German bomb during the Second World War and rebuilt in the late 1940s.

    300 m · war memorial in Abinger, Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rhododendron Wood

    Rhododendron wood is a garden on the southern slopes of Leith Hill in Surrey, England.

    3.6 km · British garden of historical importance · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Goddards

    Goddards is a Grade II*-listed house in Abinger Common, Surrey, England, completed in 1900. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens in the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and the west-facing courtyard garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll.

    900 m · country house in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hackhurst and White Downs

    Hackhurst and White Downs is a 185.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Dorking in Surrey. White Downs is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and part of it is in the 200-hectare White Downs nature reserve, which is owned by the Wotton Estate and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    3.4 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Abinger

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 17 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 75 km
Stations
Gomshall railway station, 3.1 km
  • Luton, Luton → Abinger
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Abinger
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £5–7
  • Bristol → Abinger
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Abinger

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abinger. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextRoad/rail links to Oxford (with organised day trips to Blenheim Palace or Henley on Thames) and Salisbury (with organised day trips to the Stonehenge museum) are good.

From Wikivoyage: Surrey, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    85 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    433 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    579 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    615 km

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Around it

Next door to Abinger

Abinger is 40 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.