Great Bookham
Great Bookham is a village in the Mole Valley district, in Surrey, England, one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford.
Great Bookham is a village in the Mole Valley district, in Surrey, England, one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of Bocham. The Bookhams are surrounded by common land, and Bookham railway station in Church Road, Great Bookham, serves both settlements.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Bookham
9 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.
- 01Polesden 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.
2.3 km · country house in Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church 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.
3.6 km · church in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Norbury 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.
3 km · park in Mickleham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Wesley House, With Steps And Walls To Front
Wesley House, formerly the Council Offices, is a former municipal building on Bull Hill, Leatherhead, Surrey, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Leatherhead Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3.6 km · building in Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church 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.
1.8 km · church in Mole Valley, UK · Wikipedia - 06Fetcham 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.
1.9 km · house in Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07River 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.
2.9 km · park · Wikipedia - 08Mole 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.
2.3 km · site of special biological and geographical interest in Surrey · Wikipedia - 09Ranmore Common SSSI
Ranmore Common SSSI is a 224.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ranmore Common, north-west of Dorking in Surrey. This site is mainly woodland, some of it ancient, but there are also areas of heath and rough pasture.
3.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Bookham
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 19 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 22 km · London Luton (LTN), 66 km
- Stations
- Leatherhead railway station, 3.6 km · Bookham railway station, 1.4 km · Effingham Junction railway station, 3.6 km
- Luton, Luton → Great Bookham67 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
- London, Essex → Great Bookham31 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £3.5–5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Bookham170 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great Bookham
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 Great Bookham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Great Bookham
Great Bookham is 31 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Leatherheadtown in Surrey, England3.6 km
- Micklehamvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England, UK3.8 km
- Effinghamvillage and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, UK2 km
- Fetchamvillage in Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK1.8 km
- Westhumblevillage in Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK3.8 km
- Little Bookhamvillage in Mole Valley, Surrey, United Kingdom1.2 km