Wisley
Wisley is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England between Cobham and Woking, in the Borough of Guildford.
Wisley is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England between Cobham and Woking, in the Borough of Guildford. It is the home of the Royal Horticultural Society's Wisley Garden. The River Wey runs through the village and Ockham and Wisley Commons form a large proportion of the parish on a high acid heathland, which is a rare soil type providing for its own types of habitat. It has a standard weather monitoring station, which has recorded some national record high temperatures.
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Worth seeing in and around Wisley
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.
- 01RHS 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.
1.1 km · Botanical Garden · Wikipedia - 02Painshill
Painshill is a restored, 18th-century English park and landscape garden in Cobham, Surrey, England. It was created between 1738 and 1773 by the owner, Charles Hamilton, from an area of heathland and woodland.
3.4 km · 18th-century English landscape park in Cobham, Surrey, England, UK · 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.
3.3 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.
1.3 km · house in Byfleet, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Brooklands 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.
3.4 km · sports museum in Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom · 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.
1.8 km · house in Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Painshill House
Painshill House is a Grade II*-listed house in Cobham, Surrey, England. It was designed by Richard Jupp in the late 1770s for Benjamin Bond Hopkins.
3.6 km · house in Elmbridge, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08London Bus Museum
The London Bus Museum is a purpose-built transport museum, open daily to the public and located at Brooklands in Weybridge, England. Entry is on a joint basis with Brooklands Museum.
3.4 km · transport museum located at Brooklands, Weybridge, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09All Saints' Church, Ockham
The Church of All Saints, usually known as All Saints' Church, is an Anglican church in Ockham, England. It is the parish church of Ockham with Hatchford and Downside.
2.8 km · church in Ockham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Woking Palace moated site, fishponds and ruins at Oldhall Copse
Woking Palace is a former manor house of the Royal Manor of Woking on the outskirts of Woking, near the village of Old Woking, Surrey. The manor was in the gift of the Crown, and was held by numerous nominees of the Crown until 1466 when Lady Margaret Beaufort and her third husband, Sir Henry Stafford obtained the Manor by royal grant.
4 km · archaeological site in Old Woking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wisley
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 16 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 62 km
- Stations
- Byfleet and New Haw railway station, 3 km · West Byfleet railway station, 2.7 km · Wisley Airfield, 2.2 km
- Luton, Luton → Wisley62 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Wisley31 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £3.5–4.5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Wisley162 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Wisley
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 Wisley. 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 Wisley
Wisley is 28 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ockhamvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England, UK3 km
- Ripleyvillage and civil parish in Surrey, England, UK2.9 km
- Mole Valleylocal government district in Surrey, England1.4 km
- Byfleetinland island village forming a suburb of Woking in Surrey, England2 km
- West Byfleetvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.5 km
- New Hawvillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, United Kingdom4 km