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Betchworth

Betchworth is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.

Betchworth
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The place

Betchworth is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England. The village centre is on the north bank of the River Mole and south of the A25 road, almost 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Dorking and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Reigate. London is 19.5 miles (31.4 km) north of the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Betchworth

8 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
    Box Hill

    Box Hill is a summit of the North Downs in Surrey, approximately 31 km south-west of London. It is named after the ancient box woodland found on the steepest west-facing chalk slopes overlooking the River Mole.

    3.8 km · hill in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Betchworth Castle

    Betchworth Castle is a ruined medieval fortified manor house in the north of the semi-rural parish of Brockham, Surrey, England. It is built on a sandstone spur overlooking the western bank of the River Mole.

    2.2 km · castle in Brockham, Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dorking Cockerel

    The Dorking Cockerel is a sculpture on Deepdene roundabout in Dorking, Surrey, England. It depicts a male Dorking chicken, which were historically an important part of the town's economy.

    3.9 km · public sculpture in Dorking, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hartsfield Manor

    Hartsfield Manor is an early Victorian house of historical significance located in Betchworth, Surrey, England. It was built in the 1860s as a private residence and served this purpose for several notable people until World War II. After this it became a hotel and then a training centre.

    500 m · early Victorian house of historical significance located in Betchworth, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Betchworth Quarry and Lime Kilns

    Betchworth Quarry and Lime Kilns is a 27-hectare nature reserve north of Betchworth in Surrey. Betchworth Quarry only is managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    2.9 km · park · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Brockham Limeworks

    Brockham Limeworks is a 45-hectare nature reserve north of Brockham in Surrey. It is owned by Surrey County Council.

    1.8 km · park · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Deepdene Terrace

    Deepdene Terrace is a 4-hectare nature reserve south-east of Dorking in Surrey. It is owned by Mole Valley District Council and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    3.6 km · park · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fraser Down

    Fraser Down is a 10-hectare nature reserve north of Betchworth in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    3 km · park · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Betchworth

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 11 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 72 km
Stations
Betchworth railway station, 1.7 km
  • Luton, Luton → Betchworth
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Betchworth
    32 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £3–4.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Betchworth
    178 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Betchworth

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 Betchworth. 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

    95 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    423 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    581 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    617 km

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Around it

Next door to Betchworth

Betchworth is 32 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Brockhamvillage and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England1.4 km
  • Bucklandvillage and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, UK1.4 km
  • Leighvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England, UK2.6 km
  • Pixhamvillage in Surrey, England, UK3.8 km