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Merstham

Merstham is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England.

Merstham
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The place

Merstham is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England. It lies 17 miles south of Charing Cross just beyond the Greater London border. Part of the North Downs Way runs along the northern boundary of the town. Merstham has community associations, an early medieval church and a football club.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Merstham

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
    Bletchingley Castle

    Bletchingley Castle is a ruined castle and set of earthworks partly occupied by three buildings. The Scheduled Ancient Monument is directly beside the Greensand Way below it to the south in the village of Bletchingley in Surrey.

    4.2 km · castle in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    East Surrey College

    East Surrey College is a general further education college in the north of the town of Redhill, Surrey, England. As of 2014, the college has over 2,500 classroom-based students and 1,000 community learners.

    1.4 km · Further education college in Redhill, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Peter and St Paul

    The Church of Saints Peter and Paul at Chaldon, Surrey, is a Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Southwark. The building was begun before 1086 and is Grade I listed.

    3.1 km · church at Chaldon, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sacred Heart Church, Caterham

    Sacred Heart Church or formally the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church in Caterham, Surrey, England designed by Ingress Bell and built in 1881. It is situated between Essendene Road and Whyteleafe Road off the High Street.

    5.3 km · grade II listed church in Caterham-on-the-Hill, Tandridge, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Colley Hill

    Colley Hill is part of the North Downs escarpment in the North Downs, Surrey, England. It is about 1 km east of Buckland Hills and 1 km west of Reigate Hill, all of which form part of the same escarpment.

    4.6 km · hill in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mercers Lake

    Mercers Lake is a body of water in Mercers Park, Merstham, near Redhill, Surrey. It is a former quarry that has been adapted for water sports, such as sailing, kayaking, and paddle boarding.

    1.6 km · lake in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Nutfield Marshes

    Nutfield Marshes is a 62-hectare nature reserve near Nutfield in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    2 km · park · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Happy Valley Park

    Happy Valley Park is a public park in Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. It is owned and managed by Croydon Council.

    4.4 km · public park in London, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Dollypers Hill

    Dollypers Hill is a 12-hectare nature reserve south east of Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    5.8 km · park · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Andrew's Church

    The Church of St Andrew, Gatton is a Church of England church in Gatton, near Reigate in Surrey, England. It is a Grade I listed.

    1.5 km · church in Gatton, Surrey, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to Merstham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 13 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 70 km
Stations
Redhill Aerodrome, 5.7 km · Redhill railway station, 2.8 km · Nutfield railway station, 4.3 km · Coulsdon South railway station, 5.8 km · Reigate railway station, 4.3 km
  • Luton, Luton → Merstham
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Merstham
    28 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £3–3.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Merstham
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Merstham

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    103 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    315 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    415 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    582 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    618 km

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

Around it

Next door to Merstham

Merstham is 27 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Reigatetown in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England4.7 km
  • Redhilltown in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England3.1 km
  • Caterhamtown in Tandridge district, Surrey, England5.3 km
  • Reigate and Bansteadlocal government district with borough status in Surrey, England1.7 km
  • Bletchingleyvillage and civil parish in Surrey, United Kingdom4.6 km
  • Chaldonvillage in Tandridge, Surrey, England, UK3.1 km