Welcome to Visit Great Bookham Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Great Bookham
Visit Great Bookham places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Great Bookham places to visit. A unique way to experience Great Bookham’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Great Bookham as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Great Bookham is one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of Bocham (“the village by the beeches”) The villages are astride the A246, which is the non-motorway and direct route between the two towns. When you visit Great Bookham, Walkfo brings Great Bookham places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Great Bookham Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Great Bookham
Visit Great Bookham – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 29 audio plaques & Great Bookham places for you to explore in the Great Bookham area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Great Bookham places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Great Bookham history
Great Bookham appears in the Domesday Book as Bocheham. It was held by St Peter’s Abbey, Chertsey. It lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative district of Effingham half hundred.
Great Bookham geography / climate
To the west of the Bookhams lies the village of Effingham; further west on the road to Guildford lie the similar villages of East and West Horsley. To the north-east lie Fetcham and Leatherhead, north of which the area becomes increasingly urban heading towards central London, which is only 23 miles (37 km) away.
Why visit Great Bookham with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Great Bookham places with Walkfo Great Bookham to hear history at Great Bookham’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Bookham has 29 places to visit in our interactive Great Bookham 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 Great Bookham, 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 Great Bookham places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Bookham & the surrounding areas.
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Best Great Bookham places to visit
Great Bookham has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Great Bookham’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Great Bookham’s information audio spots:
Epsom & Ewell F.C.
Epsom & Ewell Football Club groundshare at Leatherhead’s Fetcham Grove. The club have played outside Epsom since leaving their West Street Ground in 1993. Epsom are currently members of the Southern Combination Division One.
Church of St Mary & St Nicholas, Leatherhead
The Church of St Mary & St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church in Leatherhead, Surrey. Dating originally to around the 11th century, it remains a place of worship to this day. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The Rye (brook)
The Rye is a stream rising east of Ashtead and flowing into the River Mole near Leatherhead, Surrey. It rises east of Ashtead and flows east of Leatherhead and flows into the River Mole.
Church of St Mary, Fetcham
St Mary’s Church, Fetcham, Surrey, is a Church of England parish church (community) but also refers to its building which dates to the 11th century, that of the Norman Conquest. It is set off the residential road of its address, The Ridgeway, behind a small park, in the suburban part of the largely 20th century railway settlement adjoining the M25 London Orbital Motorway.
Bocketts Farm
Bocketts Farm in Surrey is a visitor attraction farm set in the countryside on the slopes of the North Downs 1.6 miles (2.6 km) due south of Leatherhead.
Norbury Park
Norbury Park is a swathe of mixed wooded and agricultural land associated with its Georgian manor house near Leatherhead and Dorking, Surrey. It occupies mostly prominent land reaching into a bend in the Mole in the parish of Mickleham.
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.
St. Michael’s Churchyard, Mickleham
St. Michael’s Churchyard is a church and graveyard located in Mickleham, Surrey, England. It belongs to the Church of England parish of St. Mickleham.
Visit Great Bookham plaques
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here Great Bookham has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Great Bookham plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Great Bookham using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Great Bookham plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.