Visit East Horsley Places

Welcome to Visit East Horsley Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in East Horsley

  

East Horsley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about East Horsley

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East Horsley history

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East Horsley appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as having two manors, listed under the chief manor’s heading of Horslei. Its domesday assets were: 3 hides and 1½ virgates; 8½ ploughs, woodland worth 50 hogs. It rendered £5 per year to its overlords. In 1792 an Inclosure Act enabled William Currie MP to inclose most of the parish and the common fields and waste at the southern part.

East Horsley geography / climate

The settlement is 21 miles southwest of London, partly on the A246 between Leatherhead and Guildford. It forms a cross between a nucleated village and dispersed settlement directly north of this road. Horsley and Effingham Junction are on the New Guildford line in the parish.

You can visit East Horsley places with Walkfo East Horsley to hear history at East Horsley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo East Horsley has 20 places to visit in our interactive East Horsley map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout East Horsley, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at East Horsley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to East Horsley & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 20 audio facts unique to East Horsley places in an interactive East Horsley map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit East Horsley Places Map
20 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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East Horsley historic spots	East Horsley tourist destinations	East Horsley plaques	East Horsley geographic features
Walkfo East Horsley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in East Horsley

  

Best East Horsley places to visit

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East Horsley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied East Horsley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo East Horsley’s information audio spots:

Sheepleas Sheepleas is a 99.9-hectare (247-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and a Local Nature Reserve.

Upper Common Pits Upper Common Pits is a 3-hectare (7.4-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the north of Gomshall in Surrey. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

Horsley Towers The East Horsley estate was later sold to William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace. The house was designed by Charles Barry for the banker William Currie in the 19th century. The Towers was purchased by Thomas Sopwith, the aviator and businessman, in 1919.

Hatchlands Park Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres) It is located near Guildford along the A246 between East and West Horsley. The gardens were Grade II listed in 2007.

Effingham Hundred Effingham Hundred or the Hundred of Effingham was a hundred but often treated as a half-hundred with that of Copthorne (to the east and north-east) and was the smallest in Surrey.

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