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Shackleford

Shackleford is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England centred to the west of the A3 between Guildford and Petersfield 32 miles (51 km) southwest of London and 5.2 miles (8.4 km) southwest of Guildford.

Shackleford
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The place

Shackleford is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England centred to the west of the A3 between Guildford and Petersfield 32 miles (51 km) southwest of London and 5.2 miles (8.4 km) southwest of Guildford. Shackleford includes the localities of Eashing, Hurtmore, Norney and Gatwick.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shackleford

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
    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.

    3.2 km · art gallery in Compton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Loseley Park

    Loseley Park is a large Tudor manor house with later additions and modifications 3 miles south-west of Guildford, Surrey, England, in Artington close to the hamlet of Littleton. The estate was acquired by the direct ancestors of the current owners, the More-Molyneux family, at the beginning of the 16th century.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Artington, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.7 km · Gothic Revival chapel and mortuary in Compton, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Godalming Borough Hall

    Godalming Borough Hall is a municipal building in Bridge Street in Godalming, a town in Surrey, England. The building was the meeting place of Godalming Town Council.

    3.3 km · town hall in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Godalming Congregational Church

    The building formerly known as Godalming Congregational Church was the Congregational chapel serving the ancient town of Godalming, in the English county of Surrey, between 1868 and 1977. It superseded an earlier chapel, which became Godalming's Salvation Army hall, and served a congregation which could trace its origins to the early 18th century.

    3.3 km · church in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Godalming United Church

    Godalming United Church is a non-conformist church formed in 1977 of a union of the local Methodist and URC churches. Built in 1903, it is located between the fire station and the River Wey in Godalming.

    3.4 km · church building in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.3 km · park · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Phillips Memorial Cloister

    The Phillips Memorial Cloister is a Grade II listed memorial in Godalming, Surrey, dedicated to Jack Phillips, a senior wireless operator who worked for the Marconi Company aboard the Titanic. The memorial was built in 1913 following Phillips' death aboard the Titanic, located alongside the Phillips Memorial Garden in the church grounds of St Peter's and St Paul's in Godalming.

    2.8 km · memorial in Godalming, Waverley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    3.2 km · house in Wanborough, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Meadrow Unitarian Chapel

    Meadrow Unitarian Chapel is a Unitarian chapel in the Farncombe area of Godalming, Surrey, England. It is part of the London District and South Eastern Provincial Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, one of 16 districts within the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians.

    4 km · church in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shackleford

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 33 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 33 km · London Luton (LTN), 78 km
Stations
Farncombe railway station, 3.5 km · Godalming railway station, 2.7 km
  • Luton, Luton → Shackleford
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Shackleford
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £5–7
  • Bristol → Shackleford
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shackleford

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 Shackleford. 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

    73 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    280 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    448 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    570 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    606 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shackleford

Shackleford is 36 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Godalmingtown in the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, UK3.4 km
  • Waverleynon-metropolitan district in Surrey, England2.9 km
  • Elsteadvillage and civil parish in Surrey, UK3.4 km
  • Comptonvillage and civil parish in the Guildford district of Surrey, England2.4 km
  • Puttenhamvillage in Surrey, England2.8 km
  • Wanboroughvillage and civil parish in Surrey, UK3.8 km