Cobham
Worth seeing in and around Cobham
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.
- 01Painshill
Painshill is a restored, 18th-century English park and landscape garden in Cobham, Surrey, England. It was created between 1738 and 1773 by the owner, Charles Hamilton, from an area of heathland and woodland.
1.3 km · 18th-century English landscape park in Cobham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Byfleet Manor
Byfleet Manor is a Grade II* listed house in Byfleet, Surrey, England. Byfleet Manor has been used as a filming location in three television series, most notably Downton Abbey.
3.7 km · house in Byfleet, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Claremont 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.
3.9 km · historic garden in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Foxwarren Park
Foxwarren Park, at Wisley in Surrey, is a Victorian country house and estate. On sandstone Ockham and Wisley Commons, it was designed in 1860 by the railway architect Frederick Barnes for brewing magnate and MP, Charles Buxton.
2.8 km · house in Borough of Guildford, 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.
2.7 km · UK modernist house in Esher, Surrey, England designed by Patrick Gwynne · Wikipedia - 06Painshill House
Painshill House is a Grade II*-listed house in Cobham, Surrey, England. It was designed by Richard Jupp in the late 1770s for Benjamin Bond Hopkins.
1.1 km · house in Elmbridge, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Manor Farm, Surrey
Manor Farm is a 25-hectare nature reserve in Byfleet, Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
3.9 km · park · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Mary, Stoke d'Abernon
The Church of St Mary is an Anglican church in the village of Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, in the Diocese of Guildford. The church, the oldest parts of which date from the 7th century, is a Grade I listed building.
2.8 km · church in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Colony Bog and Bagshot Heath
Colony Bog and Bagshot Heath is a 1,130.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Camberley and Woking in Surrey, England. Part of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area and the Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham Special Area of Conservation.
3.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England · Wikipedia - 10West 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.
3.1 km · park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cobham
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 16 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 26 km · London Luton (LTN), 61 km
- Stations
- Oxshott railway station, 3.5 km · Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon railway station, 2 km
- Luton, Luton → Cobham61 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Cobham28 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £3.5–4.5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Cobham164 km · quickest by road, 3h · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cobham
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 Cobham. 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.
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If you know how people move in Cobham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Cobham
Cobham is 26 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Whiteley Villagevillage in Elmbridge, Surrey, England2.5 km
- Stoke d'Abernonvillage in the borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England2.3 km
- Oxshottvillage in Surrey, England3.8 km
- Saint George's Hillprivate gated community in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom3.4 km