West Byfleet
West Byfleet is a village in Surrey which grew up around its relatively minor stop on the London & South Western Railway: the station, originally Byfleet and Woodham, opened in 1887.
West Byfleet is a village in Surrey which grew up around its relatively minor stop on the London & South Western Railway: the station, originally Byfleet and Woodham, opened in 1887. More than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the medieval village of Byfleet, the initial concentration of a new development soon established its own economy apart from that of a dependent London commuter village and spread in most directions to its borders including to the border of the old settlement, divided by the shielded M25 motorway today. The first place of worship was dedicated in 1912, the parish of West Byfleet associated with it was established in 1917. The village is bounded to the north by the Basingstoke Canal and to the east by the M25 and the Wey Navigation Canal. Forming part of the contiguous development centred on London and its stockbroker belt just outside the M25 motorway, it is 18 miles from London Heathrow and equidistant between the business parks of Woking and Brooklands. In local government it forms a ward on the same basis as its parish in the Borough of Woking.
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Worth seeing in and around West Byfleet
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.
3.6 km · mosque in Woking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02RHS Garden, Wisley
RHS Garden Wisley is a garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley, Surrey, southwest of London. It is one of five gardens run by the society, the others being Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall, Rosemoor, and Bridgewater.
3.4 km · Botanical Garden · Wikipedia - 03Mercedes-Benz World
Mercedes-Benz World is a facility open to the public at the historic Brooklands motor racing circuit in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. It is owned and operated by the Mercedes-Benz Group and opened in October 2006. Since then over 3 million people have visited.
3 km · motor museum and driver training facility in Surrey, UK · Wikipedia - 04Byfleet Manor
Byfleet Manor is a Grade II* listed house in Byfleet, Surrey, England. Byfleet Manor has been used as a filming location in three television series, most notably Downton Abbey.
2.8 km · house in Byfleet, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Horsell 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.
3.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Horsell, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Foxwarren Park
Foxwarren Park, at Wisley in Surrey, is a Victorian country house and estate. On sandstone Ockham and Wisley Commons, it was designed in 1860 by the railway architect Frederick Barnes for brewing magnate and MP, Charles Buxton.
3.7 km · house in Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Brooklands Museum
Brooklands Museum is a motoring and aviation museum occupying part of the former Brooklands Motor Course in Weybridge, Surrey, England. Formally opened in 1991, the museum is operated by the independent Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd, a private limited company and a registered UK charity; its aim is to conserve, protect and interpret the heritage of the Brooklands site.
3.1 km · sports museum in Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08St 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.
3.6 km · church in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Runnymede Civic Centre
Runnymede Civic Centre is a municipal building located on Station Road in Addlestone, a town in Surrey, England. It serves as the administrative headquarters and meeting place of the Runnymede Borough Council, and also houses a public library and a police station.
3.8 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 10Christ Church, Ottershaw
Christ Church, Ottershaw is a Church of England church on Guildford Road in the village of Ottershaw in the Runnymede district of Surrey, England, about 20 miles south-west of London. Grade II listed, it was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
3.4 km · grade II listed church in Runnymede, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Byfleet
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 15 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 60 km
- Stations
- Byfleet and New Haw railway station, 2 km
- Luton, Luton → West Byfleet61 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
- London, Essex → West Byfleet33 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £3.5–5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → West Byfleet159 km · quickest by road, 3h · £18–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for West Byfleet
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 West Byfleet. 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.
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Next door to West Byfleet
West Byfleet is 28 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mole Valleylocal government district in Surrey, England2.5 km
- Byfleetinland island village forming a suburb of Woking in Surrey, England2.3 km
- Wisleyvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England2.5 km
- Ottershawvillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, UK3.3 km
- New Hawvillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Pyrfordvillage in Surrey, United Kingdom2.6 km