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Merrow

Merrow is a mermaid or merman in Irish folklore.

Merrow
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The place

Merrow is a mermaid or merman in Irish folklore. The term is anglicised from the Irish word murúch.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Merrow

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
    Guildford Castle

    Castle in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Clandon Park

    Country house and museum in Surrey, England, UK

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stoke Park

    Park in Guildford, Surrey, England

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Silent Pool

    Lake in the United Kingdom

    4 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bethel Chapel Guildford

    Church in Surrey, United Kingdom

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Booker's Tower

    Tower in The Mount, Guildford

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mount Cemetery

    Cemetery in Surrey, England

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Nicolas' Church, Guildford

    Church in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Holy Trinity Church, Guildford

    Church in Guildford, UK

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Abbot's Hospital

    Grade I listed building in Guildford, United Kingdom

    2.9 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Merrow

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 26 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 26 km · London Luton (LTN), 71 km
Stations
Guildford railway station, 3.5 km · Clandon railway station, 2.9 km · London Road (Guildford) railway station, 2.4 km · Chilworth railway station, 3.4 km · Guildford bus station, 3.2 km
  • Luton, Luton → Merrow
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–10
  • London, Essex → Merrow
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £4.5–6
  • Bristol → Merrow
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £15–21
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Merrow

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 Merrow. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Surrey, 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

    82 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    288 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    438 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    570 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    606 km

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

Around it

Next door to Merrow

Merrow is 38 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Alburyvillage and civil parish in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England3.6 km
  • West Clandonvillage in Guildford, Surrey, England2.4 km
  • East Clandonvillage in Surrey, England3.4 km
  • Chilworthvillage in Surrey, UK3.5 km
  • Jacobs Wellvillage in Surrey, England, UK3.8 km
  • Burphamsuburb in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK1.6 km