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Mole Valley

Mole Valley is a local government district in Surrey, England.

Mole Valley
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The place

Mole Valley is a local government district in Surrey, England. Its council is based in Dorking, and the district's other town is Leatherhead. The largest villages are Ashtead, Fetcham and Great Bookham, in the northern third of the district.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mole Valley

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
    Shah Jahan Mosque

    The Shah Jahan Mosque on Oriental Road, Woking, England, is the first purpose-built mosque in the United Kingdom. Built in 1889, it is located 30 miles southwest of London.

    3.8 km · mosque in Woking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    RHS Garden, Wisley

    RHS Garden Wisley is a garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley, Surrey, southwest of London. It is one of five gardens run by the society, the others being Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall, Rosemoor, and Bridgewater.

    1.4 km · Botanical Garden · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Byfleet Manor

    Byfleet Manor is a Grade II* listed house in Byfleet, Surrey, England. Byfleet Manor has been used as a filming location in three television series, most notably Downton Abbey.

    2.7 km · house in Byfleet, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Foxwarren Park

    Foxwarren Park, at Wisley in Surrey, is a Victorian country house and estate. On sandstone Ockham and Wisley Commons, it was designed in 1860 by the railway architect Frederick Barnes for brewing magnate and MP, Charles Buxton.

    3.2 km · house in Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Manor Farm, Surrey

    Manor Farm is a 25-hectare nature reserve in Byfleet, Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    2.3 km · park · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    All Saints' Church, Ockham

    The Church of All Saints, usually known as All Saints' Church, is an Anglican church in Ockham, England. It is the parish church of Ockham with Hatchford and Downside.

    2.5 km · church in Ockham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ockham Park

    Ockham Park is a seventeenth-century English country house in Ockham, Surrey. The house is a square two-storey block in red brick with 7 bays on each side with a hipped tiled roof.

    2.5 km · 17th century English country house in Ockham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Dunstan's Church, Woking

    St Dunstan's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Woking, Surrey. At first it was built in 1899, replaced by a larger church in 1923 and its final form was built in 2008.

    3.6 km · church in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Woking Palace moated site, fishponds and ruins at Oldhall Copse

    Woking Palace is a former manor house of the Royal Manor of Woking on the outskirts of Woking, near the village of Old Woking, Surrey. The manor was in the gift of the Crown, and was held by numerous nominees of the Crown until 1466 when Lady Margaret Beaufort and her third husband, Sir Henry Stafford obtained the Manor by royal grant.

    2.6 km · archaeological site in Old Woking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    White Rose Lane

    White Rose Lane is a 3.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Woking in Surrey. It is owned and managed by Woking Borough Council.

    3.6 km · park · 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 Mole Valley

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 17 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 63 km
Stations
Byfleet and New Haw railway station, 3.8 km · West Byfleet railway station, 2.7 km · Wisley Airfield, 2.6 km
  • Luton, Luton → Mole Valley
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Mole Valley
    35 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £4–5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Mole Valley
    177 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £20–27
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Mole Valley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    90 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    291 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    431 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    600 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mole Valley

Mole Valley is 30 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ockhamvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England, UK3 km
  • Ripleyvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England, UK2.1 km
  • Byfleetinland island village forming a suburb of Woking in Surrey, England3.1 km
  • Sendvillage and civil parish in Surrey, Southern England3.9 km
  • Wisleyvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England1.4 km
  • West Byfleetvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.5 km