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Worth seeing in and around Shere

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
   Silent Pool

   Silent Pool is a spring-fed lake at the foot of the North Downs, about 4 miles east of Guildford in Surrey. The outflow from Silent Pool runs into a second, adjacent, lake, Sherbourne Pond, created in the mid-seventeenth century.

   1.2 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, Albury

   Old St Peter and St Paul's Church is a former Anglican church near the village of Albury, Surrey, England in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

   700 m · Grade I listed church in Albury, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Albury Park

   Albury Park is a country park and Grade II* listed historic country house in Surrey, England. It covers over 150 acres; within this area is the old village of Albury, which consists of three or four houses and a church.

   700 m · country house in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Blackheath SSSI, Surrey

   Blackheath is a 141.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Guildford in Surrey. This area of dry lowland heath and acid grassland is managed for conservation and fauna includes a wide range of breeding birds, the vulnerable heathland spider Oxyopes heterophthalmus and the rare beetle Lomechusoides strumosa.

   3.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Colyers Hanger

   Colyers Hanger is a 26.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Guildford in Surrey. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2 and is part of St Martha's Hill and Colyer's Hanger nature reserve, which is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

   3.5 km · Biological Site · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Colekitchen Down

   Colekitchen Down is a 3-hectare nature reserve north of Gomshall in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

   1.7 km · park · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Upper Common Pits

   Upper Common Pits is a 3-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the north of Gomshall in Surrey. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

   2.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shere

Airports

London Gatwick (LGW), 21 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 73 km

Stations

Gomshall railway station, 1.9 km · Chilworth railway station, 4 km

• Luton, Luton → Shere

  73 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
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• London, Essex → Shere

  40 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £5–7
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• Bristol → Shere

  150 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–21
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