Sheerwater
Sheerwater is a residential neighbourhood or small suburb of Woking, in the Woking district in Surrey, England, occasionally described as a village, between West Byfleet and Horsell.
Sheerwater is a residential neighbourhood or small suburb of Woking, in the Woking district in Surrey, England, occasionally described as a village, between West Byfleet and Horsell. Its border is defined to the north by a gently winding part of the Basingstoke Canal and to the south by the South West Main Line which passes from cutting level to that of an embankment. The neighbourhood has a business park and light industry at its south-western end. The whole area is linear, includes diverse green spaces to north and south, and covers 92 hectares.
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Worth seeing in and around Sheerwater
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.
- 01Shah Jahan Mosque
The Shah Jahan Mosque on Oriental Road, Woking, England, is the first purpose-built mosque in the United Kingdom. Built in 1889, it is located 30 miles southwest of London.
1.5 km · mosque in Woking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Kingfield Stadium
Kingfield Stadium, currently known as The Laithwaite Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the Kingfield area of Woking, Surrey, and is the home of Woking Football Club which has a capacity of approximately 6,000, of which 2,500 are seated on grandstands.
3.3 km · football stadium in Woking, Surrey, England · Wikipedia - 03Horsell Common
Horsell Common is a 355-hectare open space in Horsell, near Woking in Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Horsell Common Preservation Society.
1.4 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Horsell, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Christ Church, Woking
Christ Church is located in Woking, England. The church is in the Diocese of Guildford.
2.2 km · church building in Woking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05New Victoria Theatre
The New Victoria Theatre in Woking, England opened in June 1992. The main theatre seats approximately 1,300 people, making it one of the largest receiving house theatres outside London.
2.3 km · theatre in Woking, England · Wikipedia - 06Woking Civic Offices
Woking Civic Offices is a municipal building in Gloucester Walk, Woking, Surrey, England. It is in use as the headquarters of Woking Borough Council.
2.2 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia - 07St Dunstan's Church, Woking
St Dunstan's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Woking, Surrey. At first it was built in 1899, replaced by a larger church in 1923 and its final form was built in 2008.
1.6 km · church in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08The Lightbox
The Lightbox is a public gallery and museum located in Woking, Surrey, in the South East of England. Three galleries host a range of exhibitions, changing regularly and it has a free museum of local history – 'Woking's Story'.
2.2 km · museum in Surrey, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Woking Palace moated site, fishponds and ruins at Oldhall Copse
Woking Palace is a former manor house of the Royal Manor of Woking on the outskirts of Woking, near the village of Old Woking, Surrey. The manor was in the gift of the Crown, and was held by numerous nominees of the Crown until 1466 when Lady Margaret Beaufort and her third husband, Sir Henry Stafford obtained the Manor by royal grant.
3 km · archaeological site in Old Woking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10White Rose Lane
White Rose Lane is a 3.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Woking in Surrey. It is owned and managed by Woking Borough Council.
2.5 km · park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sheerwater
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 16 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 62 km
- Stations
- Fairoaks Airport, 2.8 km · Woking railway station, 2.3 km · West Byfleet railway station, 2 km
- Luton, Luton → Sheerwater61 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Sheerwater34 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £4.5–6
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Sheerwater158 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £18–24
- 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 Sheerwater
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 Sheerwater. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Sheerwater – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Sheerwater
Sheerwater is 29 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wokingtown in Surrey, England2.7 km
- Mole Valleylocal government district in Surrey, England3 km
- Wisleyvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England3.8 km
- Ottershawvillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, UK3.6 km
- West Byfleetvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.1 km
- Horsellvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.2 km