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Ockham, Surrey

Ockham is a rural and semi-rural village in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England.

Ockham, Surrey
Ockham, Surrey · AndyScott
The place

Ockham is a rural and semi-rural village in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England. The village starts immediately east of the A3 but the lands extend to the River Wey in the west where it has a large mill-house. Ockham is between Cobham and East Horsley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ockham, Surrey

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.

  1. 01
    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.

    1.9 km · Botanical Garden · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.7 km · house in Byfleet, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    West Horsley Place

    West Horsley Place is a Grade I listed building dating back to the 15th century, located in West Horsley to the east of Guildford in Surrey, England. It is best known as the filming location for the BBC series Ghosts.

    3.8 km · country house in West Horsley, 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.

    3.5 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.

    3.5 km · park · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    900 m · 17th century English country house in Ockham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Papercourt Marshes

    Papercourt Marshes is a 10-hectare nature reserve in the borough of Guildford in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    3.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    700 m · church in Ockham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Forest and the Highlands

    The Forest and the Highlands is a 29.74-hectare nature reserve north of East Horsley in Surrey. It is owned by East Horsley Parish Council and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    2.5 km · park · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Ockham, Surrey

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 19 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 25 km · London Luton (LTN), 64 km
Stations
Horsley railway station, 2.8 km · Effingham Junction railway station, 3 km · Wisley Airfield, 900 m
  • Luton, Luton → Ockham, Surrey
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–9
  • London, Essex → Ockham, Surrey
    32 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £3.5–5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ockham, Surrey
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ockham, Surrey

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 Ockham, Surrey. 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

    293 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    430 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    567 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    603 km

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Around it

Next door to Ockham, Surrey

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

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