Village and parish in Surrey, England

Shere

Shere is a village in the Guildford district of Surrey, England 4.8 miles (7.7 km) east south-east of Guildford and 5.4 miles (8.7 km) west of Dorking, centrally bypassed by the A25.

Plan a trip to Shere→From Luton, Luton

Every way there

Luton, Luton → Shere
73 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
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London, Essex → Shere
40 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £5–7
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Bristol → Shere
150 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–21
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Shere, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Shere has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 21 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesFlower show to Station, 22 km, Parr Boats; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Guildford, 8 km.

51.221°, -0.469°

Located on the River Tillingbourne it is a small still partly agricultural village chiefly set in the wooded Vale of Holmesdale between the North Downs and Greensand Ridge. As of 2011 the village had a population of 1,032.

How locals move

Getting around Shere the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: AndyScott (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.