Elstead
Elstead is a civil parish in Surrey, England with shops, houses and cottages spanning the north and south sides of the River Wey; development is concentrated on two roads that meet at a central green.
Elstead is a civil parish in Surrey, England with shops, houses and cottages spanning the north and south sides of the River Wey; development is concentrated on two roads that meet at a central green. It includes Pot Common its southern neighbourhood. Hamlets in the parish, marginally separated from the village centre, are Charleshill and Elstead Common, both rich in woodland. Elstead lies between Farnham and Godalming on the B3001 road about 2.2 miles (3.6 km) west of the A3 Milford interchange.
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Worth seeing in and around Elstead
5 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.
- 01Mubarak Mosque
The Mubarak Mosque is a mosque in Tilford, Surrey, England, on the site of the international headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, formally known as Islamabad, Tilford. It was inaugurated on Friday 17 May 2019 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
3.8 km · mosque in Islamabad, Tilford · Wikipedia - 02Elstead Group of Commons
Elstead Group of Commons is a 180-hectare nature reserve east of Elstead in Surrey. It is composed of Royal, Elstead and Ockley Commons, which are owned by the Ministry of Defence and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust, and Bagmoor Common, which is owned and managed by the Trust.
2 km · park · Wikipedia - 03Puttenham & Crooksbury Commons
Puttenham and Crooksbury Commons is a 113.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Farnham and Guildford in Surrey. Puttenham Common is owned by the Hampton Estate and managed on behalf of Surrey County Council.
3.2 km · UK site of special scientific importance · Wikipedia - 04Thundry Meadows
Thundry Meadows is a 16-hectare nature reserve in Elstead in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
1.7 km · park · Wikipedia - 05Charleshill SSSI
Charleshill SSSI is a 10.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Elstead in Surrey. It is part of Thundry Meadows nature reserve, which is owned and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust This site has wet and dry meadows with a very wet area which has quaking mire.
1.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Elstead
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 36 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 36 km · London Luton (LTN), 80 km
- Luton, Luton → Elstead80 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Elstead54 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £6–8
- Bristol → Elstead135 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £15–21
- 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 Elstead
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 Elstead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundFarnborough has a good network of cycle routes, the majority being either off-road or along lanes segregated from motor traffic.
From Wikivoyage: Farnborough, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Elstead
Elstead is 36 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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