Tilford
Tilford is a village and civil parish centred at the point where the two branches of the River Wey merge in Surrey, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Farnham.
Tilford is a village and civil parish centred at the point where the two branches of the River Wey merge in Surrey, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Farnham. It has half of Charleshill, Elstead in its east, a steep northern outcrop of the Greensand Ridge at Crooksbury Hill on Crooksbury Common in the north and Farnham Common (woodland) Nature Reserve in the west, which has the Rural Life Living Museum. As the Greensand Ridge in its western section is in two parts, the Greensand Way has a connecting spur here to its main route running east–west to the south.
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Worth seeing in and around Tilford
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.
- 01Waverley Abbey
Waverley Abbey was the first Cistercian abbey in England, founded in 1128 by William Giffard, the Bishop of Winchester. Located about 2 miles southeast of Farnham, Surrey, it is situated on a flood-plain; surrounded by current and previous channels of the River Wey.
2.1 km · Cistercian abbey in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Mubarak Mosque
The Mubarak Mosque is a mosque in Tilford, Surrey, England, on the site of the international headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, formally known as Islamabad, Tilford. It was inaugurated on Friday 17 May 2019 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
900 m · mosque in Islamabad, Tilford · Wikipedia - 03Mother Ludlam's Cave
Mother Ludlam's Cave, also known as Mother Ludlum's Cave or Mother Ludlum's Hole, is a small cave in the sandstone cliff of the Wey Valley at Moor Park, near Farnham, Surrey, in England. The cave is the subject of a number of local legends.
2.4 km · cave in Farnham, Surrey, UK · Wikipedia - 04Moor Park
For the school in the UK see More House School, Frensham Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey, England is a listed building and 60 acres of riverside grounds, in the former chapelry of Compton. The grounds formerly extended to Mother Ludlam's Cave, a cave entrenched in local folklore which faces across the Wey to the ruins of Waverley Abbey.
3.4 km · Grade II* listed house in Farnham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Crooksbury Hill
Crooksbury Hill is a 17.2-hectare nature reserve within Puttenham and Crooksbury Commons east of Farnham in Surrey. It is owned by Surrey County Council and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
2.6 km · park · Wikipedia - 06Thundry Meadows
Thundry Meadows is a 16-hectare nature reserve in Elstead in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
2 km · park · Wikipedia - 07Charleshill SSSI
Charleshill SSSI is a 10.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Elstead in Surrey. It is part of Thundry Meadows nature reserve, which is owned and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust This site has wet and dry meadows with a very wet area which has quaking mire.
2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 08Moor Park SSSI, Surrey
Moor Park is a 6.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Farnham in Surrey. This site in the valley of the River Wey is mainly alder carr, which is a nationally rare habitat.
2.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 09Puttenham & Crooksbury Commons
Puttenham and Crooksbury Commons is a 113.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Farnham and Guildford in Surrey. Puttenham Common is owned by the Hampton Estate and managed on behalf of Surrey County Council.
3.1 km · UK site of special scientific importance · Wikipedia - 10Gong Hill
Gong Hill is a 5.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Farnham in Surrey. This heathland site is dominated by ling, bell heather and wavy hair-grass, with other plants including bryophytes and lichens.
2.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tilford
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 38 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 39 km · London Luton (LTN), 81 km
- Luton, Luton → Tilford80 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Tilford56 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £6–8
- Bristol → Tilford131 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–20
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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 Tilford
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 Tilford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundFarnborough has a good network of cycle routes, the majority being either off-road or along lanes segregated from motor traffic.
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Next door to Tilford
Tilford is 34 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Elsteadvillage and civil parish in Surrey, UK3.5 km
- Comptonvillage in Waverley, Surrey, UK3.3 km
- Bourne Woodarea of predominantly coniferous woodland just south of Farnham, Surrey, England2.3 km
- Rushmoorvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.8 km
- Charleshillhamlet in Surrey, England1.9 km
- Lower Bournesuburb of Farnham, Surrey, England, UK3.3 km