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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
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Watts 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
  2. 02
    Watts 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
  3. 03
    Greyfriars

    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
  4. 04
    Middlebriars 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
  5. 05
    Pucks 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
  6. 06
    Wanborough 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
  7. 07
    Church 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 → Puttenham
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £9–11
  • London, Essex → Puttenham
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £5–7
  • Bristol → Puttenham
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    74 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    279 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    447 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    568 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    604 km

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

Around it

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