Heather Farm

  • Free parking
  • Parking bays for Blue Badge holders
  • Bins
  • Benches
  • Surfaced paths and boardwalks
  • Open meadows bordering the River Bourne
  • Designed to be dog-friendly
  • Dog-wash
  • Café
  • Circular walk up to 4.5km depending on which paths you explore
See route…

 

 

Where you’ll find it…

The large free car park is sign-posted off the Chobham Road (A3046) between Chobham and Woking, at postcode GU21 4XY. Grid reference SU 99407 60599. What3Words: asserts.pads.hoot.

N.B. We’ve given the nearest postcode, but recommend using the links to look up the exact location. The centre of a postcode may be up to half a mile from your destination.

What you’ll find there…

Lovely Heather Farm is a welcoming place. Specifically designed to be dog-friendly, it features 25 hectares of attractive meadows and wetlands along the River Bourne. Since officially opening to the public in January 2016, it has grown in popularity to become a sociable and friendly place to take a stroll or exercise your four-legged friend. In hot weather, the river is a real bonus, with the ford proving a much appreciated cooling off spot! And in less ideal conditions, there’s even a dog wash! Spoil your pooch with a warm water shampoo wash, followed by a conditioner rinse and finally a warm blow-dry finish. £7 for 10 minutes (contactless payment).

As you head out from the car park, look out over the Heather Farm Wetland area. The site of a former mushroom factory, it’s been cleverly landscaped to create a haven for wildlife (no dogs in the wetland area please).

Don’t leave without trying the goodies at the Heather Farm Café. Dog-friendly and with toilet facilities.

If you’re looking for a longer walk, Horsell Common Preservation Society (HCPS) have waymarked a circular 4 mile route from Heather Farm, across Horsell Common to McLaren Park. Carefully planned to avoid fragile areas of heathland where rare heathland birds are nesting on the ground.

Sketch map showing the route of a four mile circular walk starting at Heather Farm.

Waymarked walk [Click to expand]

Gallery…

Photo of a surfaced path winding its way through a meadow.
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of a surfaced path winding its way through a meadow.
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of a quiet path through a meadow.
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of a quiet path through a meadow.
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of a quiet path through a meadow.
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo taken looking across the Bourne. You can see where Horsell Common Preservation Soc have reinforced the banks to protect them from erosion.
Heather Farm, July 2024

Photo taken looking across the Bourne. You can see where Horsell Common Preservation Soc have reinforced the banks to protect them from erosion.
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of a section of boardwalk along the side of a meadow. Blue sky and fluffy white clouds.
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of a quiet grassy path through a meadow, with wildflowers in bloom either side of the path (yellow Bird's-foot-trefoil).
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of a quiet section of riverbank overlooked by a tall Oak tree. This is a ford across the Bourne.
Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of wild flowers - the Purple flower spikes of Purple-loosestrife grow in perfusion at Heather Farm.
Purple-loosestrife in flower at Heather Farm, July 2024
Photo of a ford across the river. A gravel slope leads down into the water. And the banks on either side have been repaired.
Work to repair the riverbank at Heather Farm, August 2023

Photo of a meadow, the grass has been allowed to grow long and it's dried to a golden colour in the summer sun.
Heather Farm, July 2023
Photo of new saplings planted either side of the path.
Hawthorns planted to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II, planted 15th November 2022
Photo of a surfaced path winding through a green meadow, with hedgerow and scrub. Lovely blue sky.
Heather Farm, October 2022
Photo of bridge across a river and a few people with their dogs.
The River Bourne at Heather Farm, October 2022
Photo of a surfaced path winding through a green meadow, with a muddy round pond.
Heather Farm, October 2022
Photo of a bridge crossing a stream
Ford at the very top of the Heather Farm walk, May 2022

Photo of a meadow filled with yellow buttercups
Meadow at Heather Farm, May 2022
Photo of a path through a meadow
Path at Heather Farm, May 2022
Photo of the entrance showing a poo bin beside a bridge
Heather Farm, November 2021
Photo of the main meadow, a green field surrounded by autumnal trees
Heather Farm, November 2021
Photo of a wooden bridge over a small river
Bridge over the Bourne at Heather Farm, November 2021
Photo of a reed bed in the foreground, with a wooden-clad building in the background
View across the wetlands to the Heather Farm cafe, November 2021

Photo of the dog wash - it has a large 'bath' area to put the dog in and a control panel
Heather Farm’s dog wash, November 2021
Phot of two collies beside the river
Heather Farm ford, November 2019

 

This ‘Greenspace on your doorstep’ is managed by…

Horsell Common Preservation Society

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