Places to explore in SurreyEngland · South East England

The Royal Horticultural Society's flagship garden, its trial fields, glasshouse and mixed borders spread across 240 acres by the Wey.

Sweeping chalk viewpoint over the Weald.

2.7 km²

Restored 18th-century landscape garden of follies, a crystal grotto and a serpentine lake set out by Charles Hamilton.

Wooded knoll south of Guildford topped by a 1930s stone tower folly, a short climb to a view over the Wey valley.

North Downs escarpment above Reigate with a domed Edwardian drinking fountain and a long view south from the chalk grassland.

The restored Wey Navigation wharf in Guildford, home to a surviving Wey barge and the National Trust's story of the river's working past.

Deep natural amphitheatre of heath and hanging woods at Hindhead, its main road now buried in a tunnel to quiet the valley.

A 50 m lido of 1933 in Stoke Park, Guildford, built partly by unemployed men in the Depression and now open all year.

Greensand summit crowned by an Iron Age hillfort, with a broad southward view over the Weald from a hilltop bench.

Gothic folly of 1765 crowning Leith Hill, its turret taking the hill past 1,000 feet for a view said to reach the sea.

Popular chalk-down viewpoint on the North Downs east of Guildford, with grassland and beech hangers over the Tillingbourne valley.

Hillside arboretum of rare trees and shrubs dropping to two lakes, planted for autumn colour and spring bluebells.