Puttenham
Puttenham is a village in Surrey, England, located just south of the Hog's Back which is the narrowest stretch of the North Downs.

Puttenham is a village in Surrey, England, located just south of the Hog's Back which is the narrowest stretch of the North Downs. Puttenham is about midway between the towns of Guildford and Farnham, and can be accessed from the A31 trunk road which runs along the spine of the Hog's Back. Villages nearby include Wanborough, Shackleford and Compton.
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Worth seeing in and around Puttenham
7 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.
- 01Watts Gallery
Watts Gallery is an art gallery in the village of Compton, near Guildford in Surrey. The 18 acre site includes a collection of buildings, including the home and artist studio of Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts and artist and designer Mary Watts.
2.4 km · art gallery in Compton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Watts Mortuary Chapel
The Watts Cemetery Chapel or Watts Mortuary Chapel is a chapel in a Modern Style version of Celtic Revival in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey. The designer was Mary Fraser Tytler, an artist resident in the village, who married the painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts.
2.3 km · Gothic Revival chapel and mortuary in Compton, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Greyfriars
Greyfriars is a Grade II* listed house located on the Hog's Back, in the civil parish of Wanborough, in Surrey, England. It was built in 1896 for the novelist and playwright Julian Sturgis and was designed by the arts and crafts architect C.F.A. Voysey.
1.3 km · house in Wanborough, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Middlebriars Wood
Middlebriars Wood is a 1-hectare nature reserve in Hurtmore, west of Farncombe in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
2.8 km · park · Wikipedia - 05Pucks Oak Barn and McAlmont Reserves
Pucks Oak Barn and McAlmont Reserves is a 4-hectare nature reserve near Compton, west of Guildford in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
2.4 km · park · Wikipedia - 06Wanborough Manor
Wanborough Manor is an Elizabethan manor house on the Hog's Back in Wanborough in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey. During World War II the manor house was requisitioned by the Special Operations Executive to train secret agents and was known as Special Training School 5 and later returned to private ownership.
1.1 km · building in Wanborough, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Nicholas
St Nicholas’ Church, Compton is the parish church of the Church of England parish of Compton, near Guildford in Surrey, England. It is a Grade I listed building and is regarded as one of the most architecturally significant medieval churches in the county, notable for its rare two-storey sanctuary and substantial pre-Conquest fabric.
2.2 km · church in Compton, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Puttenham
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 31 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 34 km · London Luton (LTN), 75 km
- Stations
- Wanborough railway station, 2.6 km · Ash Green Halt railway station, 3.9 km
- Luton, Luton → Puttenham75 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £9–11
- London, Essex → Puttenham49 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £5–7
- Bristol → Puttenham136 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Puttenham
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 Puttenham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundFarnborough has a good network of cycle routes, the majority being either off-road or along lanes segregated from motor traffic.
From Wikivoyage: Farnborough, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Puttenham
Puttenham is 34 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Comptonvillage and civil parish in the Guildford district of Surrey, England2.4 km
- Shacklefordvillage and civil parish in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England2.8 km
- Wanboroughvillage and civil parish in Surrey, UK1.1 km
- Peper Harowvillage and civil parish in Surrey, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Wood Street Villagevillage in Surrey, England, UK3.8 km
- Sealevillage in Surrey, United Kingdom1.1 km