Ranmore Common
Ranmore Common, also known as Ranmore Commons, is an area of wooded former common land on the North Downs, immediately northwest of Dorking in the English county of Surrey.
Ranmore Common, also known as Ranmore Commons, is an area of wooded former common land on the North Downs, immediately northwest of Dorking in the English county of Surrey. Its civil parish is Wotton, a geographically large village with a small population west of Dorking. Ranmore Common is within the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and part of it is Ranmore Common SSSI, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Worth seeing in and around Ranmore Common
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.
- 01Dorking
Dorking is a market town in Surrey in South East England about 21 mi south-west of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre.
4 km · historic market town in Surrey, England · Wikipedia - 02Polesden Lacey
Polesden Lacey is an Edwardian house and estate, located on the North Downs at Great Bookham, near Dorking, Surrey, England. It is owned and run by the National Trust and is one of the Trust's most popular properties.
2.3 km · country house in Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Joseph's Church, Dorking
St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Dorking, Surrey. It was founded in 1872 with help from the Duke of Norfolk.
3.8 km · church in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Wotton House
Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England. Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.
3.2 km · country house hotel in Wotton, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Martin's Church, Dorking
St Martin's Church is an Anglican parish church in Dorking, Surrey. It is a Grade II* listed building and surviving parts of the structure date back to the Middle Ages.
3.9 km · church in Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Milton Court
Milton Court, at the far west of the town of Dorking, is a 17th-century country house in Surrey. The court was expanded and substantially rebuilt by the Victorian architect William Burges and is a Grade II* listed building.
2.6 km · 16th-century country house near Dorking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Hackhurst and White Downs
Hackhurst and White Downs is a 185.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Dorking in Surrey. White Downs is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and part of it is in the 200-hectare White Downs nature reserve, which is owned by the Wotton Estate and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
1.4 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Ranmore Common SSSI
Ranmore Common SSSI is a 224.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ranmore Common, north-west of Dorking in Surrey. This site is mainly woodland, some of it ancient, but there are also areas of heath and rough pasture.
1.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 09Milton Heath and The Nower
Milton Heath and The Nower is a 16-hectare nature reserve west of Dorking in Surrey. It is owned by Mole Valley District Council.
3.3 km · park · Wikipedia - 10Sheepleas
Sheepleas is a 99.9-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Guildford in Surrey. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and a Local Nature Reserve.
4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ranmore Common
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 17 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 26 km · London Luton (LTN), 71 km
- Stations
- Dorking West railway station, 3.3 km
- Luton, Luton → Ranmore Common70 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
- London, Essex → Ranmore Common34 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £4–5
- Bristol → Ranmore Common157 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £17–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ranmore Common
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 Ranmore Common. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextRoad/rail links to Oxford (with organised day trips to Blenheim Palace or Henley on Thames) and Salisbury (with organised day trips to the Stonehenge museum) are good.
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Next door to Ranmore Common
Ranmore Common is 35 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.