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Fairlands

Fairlands is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Worplesdon in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England.

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The place

Fairlands is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Worplesdon in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England. The neighbourhood is centred 2.6 miles (4.2 km) north-west of Guildford, to which it is linked by a relatively straight road. The arbitrary centre of Worplesdon, a linear settlement, its church, is 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north-east.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fairlands

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.

  1. 01
    Guildford Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit, Guildford, commonly known as Guildford Cathedral, is the Anglican cathedral in Guildford, Surrey, England. Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow donated the first 6 acres of land on which the cathedral stands, with Viscount Bennett, a former Prime Minister of Canada, purchasing the remaining land and donating it to the cathedral in 1947.

    2.6 km · Anglican cathedral at Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Diocese of Guildford

    The Diocese of Guildford is a Church of England diocese covering eight and half of the eleven districts in Surrey, much of north-east Hampshire and a parish in Greater London. The cathedral is Guildford Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Guildford.

    2.6 km · Church of England diocese · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stoke Park

    Stoke Park is a 52-hectare park on the north-eastern edge of the town centre of Guildford, Surrey, England. The land was purchased by the Guildford Corporation in 1925, with the express wish that it "remain for all time a lung of the town".

    3.8 km · park in Guildford, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Nicolas' Church, Guildford

    St Nicolas' is an Anglican parish church in Guildford, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.8 km · church in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Booker's Tower

    Bookers Tower is a Grade II-listed four-storey octagonal tower built in the 19th century, in the Gothic style. It is in Guildford, Surrey, to the west of the town centre on Beech Lane.

    3.9 km · tower in The Mount, Guildford · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mount Cemetery

    Mount Cemetery, also known as Guildford Cemetery, is a cemetery in Guildford, Surrey, England. It is the location of Booker's Tower.

    3.8 km · cemetery in Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bethel Chapel Guildford

    Bethel Chapel, The Bars, Guildford, is an independent reformed Baptist church located in the heart of the historic town of Guildford. The Church was established in 1879 and the present building opened in 1910.

    3.8 km · church in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Abbot's Hospital

    The Hospital of the Blessed Trinity, better known as Abbot's Hospital, is a Grade I listed Jacobean building and charity in Guildford.

    4 km · Grade I listed building in Guildford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Guildford School of Acting

    Guildford School of Acting is a drama school in Guildford, Surrey, England. It is an academic school in the University of Surrey.

    2.2 km · drama school forming part of the University of Surrey in Guildford, Surrey, England. · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Mary's Church, Guildford

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in Guildford in Surrey, England; the church's Anglo-Saxon tower is the oldest surviving structure in the town. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author Lewis Carroll, preached here and his funeral was held in the church in 1898.

    3.9 km · church in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Fairlands

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 26 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 32 km · London Luton (LTN), 71 km
Stations
Guildford railway station, 3.4 km · Wanborough railway station, 3.9 km · Guildford bus station, 3.6 km
  • Luton, Luton → Fairlands
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
  • London, Essex → Fairlands
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £5–6
  • Bristol → Fairlands
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fairlands

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 Fairlands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    80 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    283 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    442 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    602 km

If you know how people move in Fairlands – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Fairlands

Fairlands is 33 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.