Friday Street

Worth seeing in and around Friday Street

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
   Leith Hill

   Leith Hill in southern England is the highest summit of the Greensand Ridge, approximately 6.7 km southwest of Dorking, Surrey and 40.5 km southwest of central London. It reaches 294 m above sea level, and is the second highest point in southeast England, after Walbury Hill in southwest Berkshire, high).

   2.7 km · hill in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Abinger Castle

   Abinger Castle is an earthwork motte and bailey that was topped with a small wooden fortress. It is located in Abinger Common, between Guildford and Dorking in Surrey, England.

   1.6 km · castle in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Mullard Space Science Laboratory

   The UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory is the largest university-based space research group in the UK. MSSL is part of the Department of Space and Climate Physics at University College London, one of the first universities in the world to conduct space research. Since its establishment, as of July 2025, MSSL has participated in 71 satellite missions, ten of which remain in operation, and with seven more in development.

   3.8 km · United Kingdom's largest university space research group · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Wotton House

   Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England. Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.

   1.6 km · country house hotel in Wotton, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Goddards

   Goddards is a Grade II*-listed house in Abinger Common, Surrey, England, completed in 1900. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens in the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and the west-facing courtyard garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll.

   900 m · country house in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Hackhurst and White Downs

   Hackhurst and White Downs is a 185.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Dorking in Surrey. White Downs is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and part of it is in the 200-hectare White Downs nature reserve, which is owned by the Wotton Estate and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

   3.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Church of St John the Evangelist

   The Church of St John the Evangelist is an Anglican church in the village of Wotton, in Surrey, England. It is in the benefice of Abinger and Coldharbour and Wotton and Holmbury St Mary, and is in the Diocese of Guildford.

   2.5 km · church in Mole Valley, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Rhododendron Wood

   Rhododendron wood is a garden on the southern slopes of Leith Hill in Surrey, England.

   2.8 km · British garden of historical importance · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Joldwynds

   Joldwynds is a modernist style house in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, England, designed by architect Oliver Hill for Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene. Completed in 1932, it is a Grade II listed building.

   3.3 km · house in Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Church of St James, Abinger

    St James's Church stands on Abinger Lane in Abinger Common, a small village within the civil parish of Abinger in Surrey, south-eastern England. The church was built in the early 12th century and then rebuilt around 1220, and is today a grade II* listed building.

    1.5 km · church in Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Friday Street

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London Gatwick (LGW), 15 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 75 km

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  46 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £5–7
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  39 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £5–7
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  40 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £4.5–6
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