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Abinger Hammer

Abinger Hammer is a village in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.

Abinger Hammer
Abinger Hammer · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Abinger Hammer is a village in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England. It lies in the Vale of Holmesdale in the Surrey Hills National Landscape and is located on the A25 about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Guildford and 4+1⁄2 miles (7.2 km) west of Dorking. The village is named after its water-powered iron forge.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Abinger Hammer

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
    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.

    2.4 km · castle in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Silent Pool

    Silent Pool is a spring-fed lake at the foot of the North Downs, about 4 miles east of Guildford in Surrey. The outflow from Silent Pool runs into a second, adjacent, lake, Sherbourne Pond, created in the mid-seventeenth century.

    3.6 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, Albury

    Old St Peter and St Paul's Church is a former Anglican church near the village of Albury, Surrey, England in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Albury, Surrey, England, UK · 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.

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

    2.5 km · church in Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.5 km · war memorial in Abinger, Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Albury Park

    Albury Park is a country park and Grade II* listed historic country house in Surrey, England. It covers over 150 acres; within this area is the old village of Albury, which consists of three or four houses and a church.

    3.2 km · country house in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.3 km · country house in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Colekitchen Down

    Colekitchen Down is a 3-hectare nature reserve north of Gomshall in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    1.6 km · park · Wikipedia

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Getting to Abinger Hammer

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 19 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 73 km
Stations
Gomshall railway station, 700 m
  • Luton, Luton → Abinger Hammer
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
  • London, Essex → Abinger Hammer
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £5–7
  • Bristol → Abinger Hammer
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Abinger Hammer

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 Hammer. 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

    295 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    434 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    576 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    612 km

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Around it

Next door to Abinger Hammer

Abinger Hammer is 38 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Wottonvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England, UK3.2 km
  • Gomshallvillage in Surrey, UK1.2 km
  • Holmbury St Maryvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.7 km
  • Peaslakevillage in Surrey, England, UK1.4 km