Horsell
Horsell is a village in the borough of Woking in Surrey, England, less than a mile north-west of Woking town centre.
Horsell is a village in the borough of Woking in Surrey, England, less than a mile north-west of Woking town centre. In November 2012, its population was 9,384. Horsell is integral to H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, the sand pits of Horsell Common being the site of the first Martian landing. Horsell Common has since been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Another landmark is the McLaren Technology Centre, built on the northern edge of the common in the early 2000s for the McLaren Group.
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Worth seeing in and around Horsell
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.
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- 06Woking Palace moated site, fishponds and ruins at Oldhall Copse
Archaeological site in Old Woking, Surrey, England, UK
3.8 km · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Lawrence, Chobham
Grade I listed church in Chobham, Surrey, England, UK
3.5 km · Wikipedia - 08
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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.
Getting to Horsell
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 17 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 33 km · London Luton (LTN), 62 km
- Stations
- Fairoaks Airport, 2.2 km · Woking railway station, 1.2 km
- Luton, Luton → Horsell63 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Horsell37 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £4.5–6
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Horsell158 km · quickest by road, 3h · £18–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Horsell
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 Horsell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe South's major ferry ports are (clockwise from the east) Dover (ferries from Calais and Dunkirk in France), Newhaven (ferries from Dieppe in France) and Portsmouth (ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre and St.
- Get inPoole (which shares ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg and St.
- Go nextLondon - The capital is practically on your doorstep when you're in South East England, so it is an obvious choice for a day trip or longer.
- Go nextGo Abroad - The South East is the closest part of the UK to the European mainland (the English Channel is just 20 miles (32 km) across at its narrowest), and with Channel Tunnel journey times from Kent to Calais as short as 35 minutes, day trips to northern France, Belgium and beyond are highly feasible and attractive.
From Wikivoyage: South East England, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Horsell – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Horsell
Horsell is 31 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wokingtown in Surrey, England1.4 km
- Chobhamvillage and civil parish in the Surrey Heath borough of Surrey, England, UK3.6 km
- Knaphillvillage in Surrey, England, UK4 km
- Sheerwatersuburb of Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom2 km
- Mayfordvillage in Surrey, England, UK3.7 km
- Old Wokingvillage in Surrey, England, UK3.4 km