Alfold
Alfold is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England on the West Sussex border.
Alfold is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England on the West Sussex border. Alfold is a dispersed or polyfocal village in the Green Belt, which is buffered from all other settlements. The Greensand Way runs north of the village along the Greensand Ridge and two named localities exist to the north and south of the historic village centre which features pubs, a set of stocks and a whipping post.
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Worth seeing in and around Alfold
2 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.
- 01Wey and Arun Canal
The Wey and Arun Canal is a partially open, 23-mile-long canal in the southeast of England. It runs southwards from the River Wey at Gunsmouth in Shalford, Surrey to the River Arun at Pallingham, in West Sussex.
2.2 km · canal in the south east of England · Wikipedia - 02Fir Tree Copse
Fir Tree Copse is a 6-hectare nature reserve south-east of Dunsfold in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust and is part of the Chiddingfold Forest Site of Special Scientific Interest This is oak and ash woodland, with hazel coppice.
1.7 km · park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alfold
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 24 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 42 km · London Luton (LTN), 87 km
- Stations
- Top Gear test track, 2.7 km · Dunsfold Aerodrome, 2.3 km
- London → Alfold52 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Alfold86 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £9–13
- London, Essex → Alfold52 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £6–8
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Alfold
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 Alfold. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThere are many possible day trips from Horsham, here are some suggestions: Leith Hill and the Surrey Hills, 20 minutes north-northwest via the A24 and B2126, one of the most beautiful stretches of the North Downs, with the highest point in south east England.
From Wikivoyage: Horsham (West Sussex), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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Next door to Alfold
Alfold is 51 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Loxwoodvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.5 km
- Alfold Crosswayshamlet in Surrey, United Kingdom800 m
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