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Fetcham

Fetcham is a suburban village in the Mole Valley district, in Surrey, England west of the town of Leatherhead, on the other side of the River Mole and has a mill pond, springs and an associated nature reserve.

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The place

Fetcham is a suburban village in the Mole Valley district, in Surrey, England west of the town of Leatherhead, on the other side of the River Mole and has a mill pond, springs and an associated nature reserve. The housing, as with adjacent Great Bookham, sits on the lower slopes of the North Downs north of Polesden Lacey (NT). Fetcham Grove has Leatherhead and the village's main leisure centre and football club, between the two settlements. Fetcham has two short parades of shops and services, several sports teams and parks and a small number of large pubs and food premises.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fetcham

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
    Polesden Lacey

    Polesden Lacey is an Edwardian house and estate, located on the North Downs at Great Bookham, near Dorking, Surrey, England. It is owned and run by the National Trust and is one of the Trust's most popular properties.

    3.9 km · country house in Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Norbury Park

    Norbury Park is an area of mixed wooded and agricultural land surrounding a privately owned Georgian manor house near Leatherhead and Dorking, Surrey. On the west bank of the River Mole, it is close to the village of Mickleham.

    2.9 km · park in Mickleham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead

    The Church of Our Lady and St Peter is a Roman Catholic church in Leatherhead, Surrey. It was founded as a local chapel during the First World War and later became a Parish church.

    2.2 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St. Mary & St. Nicholas, Leatherhead

    The Church of St Mary & St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church in Leatherhead, Surrey, England. Dating originally to around the 11th century, it remains a place of worship to this day.

    1.8 km · church in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Juniper Hall

    Juniper Hall FSC Field Centre is an 18th-century country house, leased from the National Trust, on the east slopes of Mickleham in the deep Mole Gap of the North Downs in Surrey, England. The varying contours of the slopes provide habitats and environments for study including unimproved chalk grassland, coppiced woodlands, heathland and freshwater.

    3.9 km · country house in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church 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.

    3.3 km · church in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St. Mary, Fetcham

    St Mary's Church, Fetcham, Surrey, England is a Church of England parish church but also refers to its building which dates to the 11th century, that of the Norman Conquest and as such is the settlement's oldest building. It is set off the residential road of its address, The Ridgeway, behind a small park, in the suburban part of the largely 20th century railway settlement adjoining the M25 London Orbital Motorway which has retained farmed rural outskirts.

    200 m · church in Mole Valley, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fetcham Park House

    Fetcham Park House is a Queen Anne mansion designed by the English architect William Talman with internal murals by the renowned artist Louis Laguerre and grounds originally landscaped by George London. It is located in the parish of Fetcham near Leatherhead in Surrey.

    200 m · house in Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    River Mole LNR

    River Mole LNR is a 23.3-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Leatherhead in Surrey. It is owned by private landowners and managed by the Environment Agency, Mole Valley District Council, Lower Mole Countryside Project, Leatherhead Trust, Surrey County Council and private landowners.

    1 km · park · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment

    Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment is a 1,016.4-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Reigate in Surrey. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and a Special Area of Conservation.

    1.9 km · site of special biological and geographical interest in Surrey · Wikipedia

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Getting to Fetcham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 20 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 21 km · London Luton (LTN), 65 km
Stations
Bookham railway station, 2.2 km · Leatherhead railway station, 1.7 km
  • Luton, Luton → Fetcham
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–11
  • London, Essex → Fetcham
    29 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £3–4.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Fetcham
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fetcham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextRoad/rail links to Oxford (with organised day trips to Blenheim Palace or Henley on Thames) and Salisbury (with organised day trips to the Stonehenge museum) are good.

From Wikivoyage: Surrey, 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

    94 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    424 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    572 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    608 km

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Around it

Next door to Fetcham

Fetcham is 29 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Leatherheadtown in Surrey, England1.7 km
  • Great Bookhamvillage located in Mole Valley, Surrey, United Kingdom2 km
  • Micklehamvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England, UK3.3 km
  • Effinghamvillage and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, UK3.9 km
  • Little Bookhamvillage in Mole Valley, Surrey, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Stoke d'Abernonvillage in the borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England3.9 km