Claygate
Claygate is an affluent suburban village in Surrey, England, 14 miles southwest of central London.
Claygate is an affluent suburban village in Surrey, England, 14 miles southwest of central London. It is the only civil parish in the borough of Elmbridge. Adjoining Esher and Hinchley Wood to the west and north respectively, and bordered by green belt land to the south and east, Claygate lies within the Greater London Built-up Area.
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Worth seeing in and around Claygate
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.
- 01Claremont
Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion less than a mile south of the centre of Esher in Surrey, England. The buildings are now occupied by Claremont Fan Court School, and its landscaped gardens are owned and managed by the National Trust.
1.8 km · country house and gardens in Esher, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Chessington World of Adventures
Chessington World of Adventures Resort is a 128 acres theme park, zoo and hotel complex in Chessington, Greater London, England, around 12 miles southwest of Central London. The complex originally opened as Chessington Zoo in 1931; the theme park aspect was developed by The Tussauds Group, debuting on 7 July 1987 as one of the first combined animal-amusement parks in the UK. The theme park, which features over 40 rides, is owned by Merlin Entertainments, following its merger with The Tussauds Group in 2007.
2.2 km · amusement park · Wikipedia - 03Sandown Park Racecourse
Sandown Park is a horse racing course and leisure venue in Esher, Surrey, England, located in the outer suburbs of London. It hosts 5 Grade One National Hunt races and one Group 1 flat race, the Eclipse Stakes.
2.2 km · racecourse in Esher, Surrey · Wikipedia - 04Claremont Landscape Garden
Claremont Landscape Garden, just outside Esher, Surrey, England, is one of the earliest surviving gardens of its kind of landscape design, the English Landscape Garden — still featuring its original 18th-century layout. The garden is Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
2.5 km · historic garden in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05The Homewood
The Homewood is a modernist house near Esher, Surrey, England. Designed by Patrick Gwynne for his parents, it was completed in 1938.
3.4 km · UK modernist house in Esher, Surrey, England designed by Patrick Gwynne · Wikipedia - 06St George's Church, Esher
St George's Church, Esher is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Esher, Surrey, England. Built in the 16th century, it was Esher's parish church for 300 years, though later worshippers included Queen Victoria.
1.9 km · church in Esher, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St. Nicholas, Thames Ditton
St Nicholas Church in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church that has parts that date back to the 12th century.
3.6 km · church in Thames Ditton · Wikipedia - 08West End Common
West End Common is a 70.3-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the north-western outskirts of Esher in Surrey. It is owned and managed by Elmbridge Borough Council.
3.3 km · park · Wikipedia - 09Esher Place
Esher Place is a Grade-II listed country house, since 1953 used as a college by the trade union Unite, in Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom. The building is at least the fourth on approximately the same site and mainly dates to the 1890s.
2.5 km · Grade I listed building in Esher, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Wayneflete Tower
Wayneflete Tower, also known as Waynflete's Tower, is a historical gatehouse located in Esher, near London. it was originally part of the Palace of Esher, established in 1462 by Bishop William Waynflete of Winchester, and was connected to the keep by a curtain wall.
2.9 km · Grade I listed building in Esher, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Claygate
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 15 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 26 km · London Luton (LTN), 57 km
- Stations
- Oxshott railway station, 3 km · Claygate railway station, 400 m · Hinchley Wood railway station, 1.8 km · Hersham railway station, 3.8 km · Esher railway station, 2.3 km
- Luton, Luton → Claygate58 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £8–10
- London, Essex → Claygate22 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £2.5–3.5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Claygate75 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–10
- 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 Claygate
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 Claygate. 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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If you know how people move in Claygate – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Claygate
Claygate is 22 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Eshertown in Surrey, England, UK1.9 km
- Elmbridgelocal government district with borough status in Surrey, England, UK1.8 km
- Thames Dittonvillage in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Hookarea in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London2.6 km
- Moleseysuburban district comprising two large villages, East Molesey and West Molesey, just outside the edge of Greater London in Surrey, England4 km
- Malden Rushettarea in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London, England, UK3 km