Photo of Farnham, a village in Surrey, south east England.

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Villages & towns in SurreySurrey, England

29 villages and towns in the Albion Guide across Surrey — see the full villages and towns directory, or everything to explore in Surrey.

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Farnham

Georgian market town on the Wey, its Castle Street of red-brick and hung-tile houses climbing to a Norman castle keep above the North Downs.

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Compton

Village on the old Guildford–Farnham road, home to the Watts Gallery, its Arts and Crafts chapel and a rare Norman two-storey church.

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Shere

Surrey Hills village on the Tillingbourne, its ford and timbered cottages so picture-book they stand in for storybook England on film.

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Godalming

Wey-side wool town with a pillared Pepperpot market hall, timber-framed frontages and the tall lead spire of its Saxon-founded church.

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Albury

Estate village of tall Victorian twisted chimneys in the Tillingbourne valley, beside the Silent Pool and Albury Park.

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Brockham

Mole-side village round a large triangular green under Box Hill, famous for one of Surrey's biggest bonfire nights.

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Chiddingfold

Weald village round a triangular green and pond, with a medieval Crown Inn and a glass-making history recorded in its church windows.

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Dorking

Market town in the gap between Box Hill and the Nower, a base for the surrounding Surrey Hills with antique shops along its old high street.

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Dunsfold

Scattered Weald village along a broad common, with a 13th-century church prized for its untouched original benches and a holy well.

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Elstead

Wey-side village round a green, its medieval hump-backed bridge and old mill set among the commons west of Godalming.

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Haslemere

Wooded hill town in Surrey's far south-west, ringed by Blackdown and the Devil's Punch Bowl and home to the long-running Haslemere Festival.

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Ockley

Village on the Roman Stane Street, set round a long green with an old well, below the wooded slopes of Leith Hill

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Peaslake

Hill village in the Hurtwood, ringed by pine and heather and long a hub for mountain-biking on the surrounding commons.

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Puttenham

Street village along the North Downs Way under the Hog's Back, with hung-tile cottages, a Norman church and nearby vineyard.

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Tilford

Village where two branches of the Wey meet at a green, crossed by medieval bridges and near the ruins of Waverley Abbey.

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Wonersh

Village south of Guildford with a timbered market house and hung-tile cottages, on the Wey and Downs Link route.

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Betchworth

Mole-valley village of old cottages and a cricket green below the North Downs, its riverside a favourite film location.

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Bletchingley

Ridge-top village of timbered and tile-hung houses along a wide high street, once a rotten borough below its ruined castle.

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Friday Street

Tiny wooded hamlet around a hammer-pond below Leith Hill, reached by narrow lanes and a favourite of walkers on the greensand hills.

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Mickleham

Downland village in the Mole gap below Box Hill, with a Norman church and old coaching inns on the Dorking road.

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Outwood

Common-edge village on the Weald whose 1665 post mill is the oldest working windmill in England.

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Reigate

Old town below the North Downs escarpment, its castle grounds tunnelled beneath the high street and Priory park spreading south.

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Thursley

Small heathland village between Hindhead and the Devil's Punch Bowl, bordering the boggy nature reserve of Thursley Common.

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Abinger Hammer

Tillingbourne hamlet named for its iron-working past, marked by the jack-o'-clock 'Jack the Blacksmith' that strikes the hours over the road.

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Chobham

Old village north of the Surrey heaths, its high street of small shops beside the vast heather expanse of Chobham Common.

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Godstone

Village round a green and pond in the Gault clay vale, with old inns and the lakes and farm of a country park nearby.

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Chilworth

Tillingbourne village below St Martha's Hill, its valley once lined with gunpowder mills whose ruins survive in the woods.

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Coldharbour

High greensand hamlet on the shoulder of Leith Hill, with a hilltop cricket pitch and forest tracks radiating from its single lane.

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Ripley

Long village on the old Portsmouth road, a Victorian cycling mecca and now known for its high street restaurants and wide green.

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