Brooklands
Brooklands was a 2.767-mile (4.453 km) motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Brooklands was a 2.767-mile (4.453 km) motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918, producing military aircraft such as the Wellington and civil airliners like the Viscount and VC10.
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Getting to Brooklands
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 14 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 59 km
- Luton, Luton → Brooklands25 km · quickest by road, 40 min · £3–3.5
- London, Essex → Brooklands71 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £7–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Brooklands9 km · quickest by road, 31 min · £1.5–2
- 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 Brooklands
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 Brooklands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe South's major ferry ports are (clockwise from the east) Dover (ferries from Calais and Dunkirk in France), Newhaven (ferries from Dieppe in France) and Portsmouth (ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre and St.
- Get inPoole (which shares ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg and St.
- Go nextLondon - The capital is practically on your doorstep when you're in South East England, so it is an obvious choice for a day trip or longer.
- Go nextGo Abroad - The South East is the closest part of the UK to the European mainland (the English Channel is just 20 miles (32 km) across at its narrowest), and with Channel Tunnel journey times from Kent to Calais as short as 35 minutes, day trips to northern France, Belgium and beyond are highly feasible and attractive.
From Wikivoyage: South East England, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Brooklands
Brooklands is 26 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.