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Worth seeing in and around Westcott

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.

  1. 01
    Dorking

    Dorking is a market town in Surrey in South East England about 21 mi south-west of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre.

    3 km · historic market town in Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Polesden Lacey

    Polesden Lacey is an Edwardian house and estate, located on the North Downs at Great Bookham, near Dorking, Surrey, England. It is owned and run by the National Trust and is one of the Trust's most popular properties.

    3.7 km · country house in Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Abinger Castle

    Abinger Castle is an earthwork motte and bailey that was topped with a small wooden fortress. It is located in Abinger Common, between Guildford and Dorking in Surrey, England.

    3.4 km · castle in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wotton House

    Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England. Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.

    2.2 km · country house hotel in Wotton, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dorking Cockerel

    The Dorking Cockerel is a sculpture on Deepdene roundabout in Dorking, Surrey, England. It depicts a male Dorking chicken, which were historically an important part of the town's economy.

    3.7 km · public sculpture in Dorking, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Joseph's Church, Dorking

    St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Dorking, Surrey. It was founded in 1872 with help from the Duke of Norfolk.

    2.5 km · church in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St James, Abinger

    St James's Church stands on Abinger Lane in Abinger Common, a small village within the civil parish of Abinger in Surrey, south-eastern England. The church was built in the early 12th century and then rebuilt around 1220, and is today a grade II* listed building.

    3.4 km · church in Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Abinger Common War Memorial

    Abinger Common War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of Abinger Common in Surrey, south-eastern England. The memorial was destroyed by a German bomb during the Second World War and rebuilt in the late 1940s.

    3.5 km · war memorial in Abinger, Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Goddards

    Goddards is a Grade II*-listed house in Abinger Common, Surrey, England, completed in 1900. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens in the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and the west-facing courtyard garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll.

    3.6 km · country house in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hackhurst and White Downs

    Hackhurst and White Downs is a 185.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Dorking in Surrey. White Downs is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and part of it is in the 200-hectare White Downs nature reserve, which is owned by the Wotton Estate and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

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

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Getting to Westcott

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 15 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 72 km
Stations
Dorking railway station, 3.8 km · Dorking Deepdene railway station, 3.7 km · Dorking West railway station, 2.6 km
  • Luton, Luton → Westcott
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Westcott
    36 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £4–6
  • Bristol → Westcott
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £18–24
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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 Westcott. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Surrey, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    88 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    300 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    430 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    578 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    614 km

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Around it

Next door to Westcott

Westcott is 36 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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