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Frensham

Frensham is a village in Surrey, England, next to the A287 road, 13 miles (20.9 km) WSW of Guildford, the county town.

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The place

Frensham is a village in Surrey, England, next to the A287 road, 13 miles (20.9 km) WSW of Guildford, the county town. Frensham lies on the right bank of the River Wey, only navigable to canoes, shortly before its convergence with the north branch. Farnham is the nearest town, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the north.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Frensham

4 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
    Birdworld

    Birdworld is the United Kingdom's largest bird park, covering 26 acres. It is located in the East Hampshire district, close to the village of Bucks Horn Oak and the surrounding Alice Holt Forest.

    3.8 km · Bird park in Farnham, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gong Hill

    Gong Hill is a 5.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Farnham in Surrey. This heathland site is dominated by ling, bell heather and wavy hair-grass, with other plants including bryophytes and lichens.

    3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rural Life Living Museum

    The Rural Life Living Museum is in Tilford, Surrey near Farnham in southern England. Formerly known as the Old Kiln Agricultural Museum and the Rural Life Centre, it is an open-air museum of country life run by the Old Kiln Museum Trust, a charitable trust.

    3.2 km · open air museum of rural life near Farnham in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Underdown nature reserve

    Underdown is a 1-hectare nature reserve in Farnham in Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    3.7 km · park · 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.

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Getting to Frensham

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 42 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 43 km · London Luton (LTN), 85 km
  • London → Frensham
    23 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £2.5–3
  • Luton, Luton → Frensham
    31 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4.5–6
  • London, Essex → Frensham
    23 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £2.5–3
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Frensham

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 Frensham. 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

    63 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    270 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    458 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    569 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    605 km

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

Around it

Next door to Frensham

Frensham is 35 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Bourne Woodarea of predominantly coniferous woodland just south of Farnham, Surrey, England3.8 km
  • Rowledgevillage on the boundary of Hampshire and Surrey, England, UK3 km
  • Rushmoorvillage in Surrey, England, UK3.6 km
  • Barfordvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom3.7 km