West Horsley
West Horsley is a semi-rural village between Guildford and Leatherhead in Surrey, England.
West Horsley is a semi-rural village between Guildford and Leatherhead in Surrey, England. It lies on the A246, and south of the M25 and the A3. Its civil parish ascends to an ancient woodland Sheepleas Woods which are on the northern downslopes of the ridge of hills known as the North Downs in the extreme south of the village, and cover about a tenth of its area, 255 acres (1 km2). The bulk of its land is north of the Surrey Hills AONB; the rest is within it.
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Worth seeing in and around West Horsley
8 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.
- 01Clandon Park
Clandon Park House is an early 18th-century grade I listed Palladian mansion in West Clandon, near Guildford in Surrey. It stands in the south east corner of Clandon Park, a 220-hectare agricultural parkland estate which has been the seat of the Earls of Onslow for over two centuries.
4 km · country house and museum in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Hatchlands Park
Hatchlands Park is a country house in East Clandon, Surrey, in the care of the National Trust. Unusually, the house is tenanted to the Cobbe family, whose collection furnishes it.
1.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in East Clandon, Surrey, United Kingdom (National Trust property) · Wikipedia - 03West Horsley Place
West Horsley Place is a Grade I listed building dating back to the 15th century, located in West Horsley to the east of Guildford in Surrey, England. It is best known as the filming location for the BBC series Ghosts.
1 km · country house in West Horsley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Horsley Towers
Horsley Towers, East Horsley, Surrey, England is a country house dating from the 19th century. The house was designed by Charles Barry for the banker William Currie.
1.9 km · country house in East Horsley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05The Forest and the Highlands
The Forest and the Highlands is a 29.74-hectare nature reserve north of East Horsley in Surrey. It is owned by East Horsley Parish Council and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
3.1 km · park · Wikipedia - 06Colekitchen Down
Colekitchen Down is a 3-hectare nature reserve north of Gomshall in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
3.7 km · park · Wikipedia - 07Sheepleas
Sheepleas is a 99.9-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Guildford in Surrey. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and a Local Nature Reserve.
1.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 08Upper 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.
2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Horsley
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 22 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 23 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km
- Stations
- Horsley railway station, 2.4 km · Clandon railway station, 3.4 km
- Luton, Luton → West Horsley69 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
- London, Essex → West Horsley36 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £4–6
- Bristol → West Horsley150 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £17–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for West Horsley
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 Horsley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextRoad/rail links to Oxford (with organised day trips to Blenheim Palace or Henley on Thames) and Salisbury (with organised day trips to the Stonehenge museum) are good.
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Next door to West Horsley
West Horsley is 34 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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