Longcross
Longcross is a village in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately 34.6 kilometres (21.5 mi) west of central London.

Longcross is a village in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately 34.6 kilometres (21.5 mi) west of central London. Its name is thought to come from a marker, placed where the parish boundaries of Chertsey, Chobham and Egham met.
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Worth seeing in and around Longcross
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.
- 01Fort Belvedere, Surrey
Fort Belvedere is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England. The fort was built as a folly by Henry Flitcroft in 1750–1755, and was later predominantly re-constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.
3.5 km · Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Virginia Water Lake
Virginia Water lies on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park, in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey and the civil parishes of Old Windsor and Sunningdale in Berkshire, in England. It is a man-made lake taking its name from a natural body of water of the same name.
3.9 km · lake on the boundary of Berkshire and Surrey, in England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Botleys Mansion
Botleys Mansion is a Palladian mansion house in the south of Chertsey, Surrey, England, just south of St Peter's Hospital. The house was built in the 1760s by builders funded by Joseph Mawbey and to designs by Kenton Couse.
3.6 km · Palladian mansion house in the south of Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Christ Church, Ottershaw
Christ Church, Ottershaw is a Church of England church on Guildford Road in the village of Ottershaw in the Runnymede district of Surrey, England, about 20 miles south-west of London. Grade II listed, it was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
3.9 km · grade II listed church in Runnymede, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Former Holloway Sanatorium At Virginia Water
Holloway Sanatorium was an institution for the treatment of those suffering temporary mental illness, situated on 22 acres of aesthetically landscaped grounds near Virginia Water in Surrey, England, about 22 miles south-west of Charing Cross. Its largest buildings, including one listed at Grade I, have been restored and supplemented as Virginia Park, a gated residential community featuring a spa complex, gymnasium, multi-purpose sports hall and an all-weather tennis court.
3.4 km · Grade I listed building in Runnymede, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Lawrence, Chobham
St Lawrence is a Church of England church located in Chobham, Surrey. It serves the parishes of St Lawrence Chobham and St Saviour Valley End in the Diocese of Guildford.
3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Chobham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Coworth House
Coworth House, currently known as Coworth Park Hotel, is a late 18th-century country house situated at Sunningdale, near Ascot, in the English county of Berkshire. It is one of the ten hotels operated by the Dorchester Collection, a group of luxury hotels in Europe and the United States owned by the Brunei Investment Agency.
3.7 km · country house hotel · Wikipedia - 08Gracious Pond
Gracious Pond is a 14-hectare nature reserve in Chobham in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
1.4 km · park · Wikipedia - 09Riverside Walk, Virginia Water
Riverside Walk is a 21.2-hectare local nature reserve in Virginia Water, Surrey. It is owned by Runnymede Borough Council and managed by The Cabrera Trust Committee.
2.5 km · park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Longcross
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 13 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 38 km · London Luton (LTN), 57 km
- Stations
- Fairoaks Airport, 3.8 km · Sunningdale railway station, 3.7 km · Longcross railway station, 1 km · Virginia Water railway station, 3.1 km
- Luton, Luton → Longcross57 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–8
- London, Essex → Longcross35 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4–5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Longcross152 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £17–23
- 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 Longcross
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 Longcross. 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.
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Next door to Longcross
Longcross is 28 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sunningdalevillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Runnymedelocal government district with borough status in Surrey, England3.6 km
- Chobhamvillage and civil parish in the Surrey Heath borough of Surrey, England, UK3.6 km
- Virginia Watervillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England2.7 km
- Lynevillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England2.9 km
- Trumps Greenvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.3 km