It's water and gardens with a village in between. There's water a short walk from most front doors. There are half a dozen green spaces within a kilometre. The back gardens are big. The outdoors is the main amenity, and the high street comes second.
Public green space is close almost everywhere. The nearest averages about 280 metres from a home, and there are around six within a kilometre. Nobody here has to drive to find grass. It's usually at the end of the road.
Water is closer still. The nearest blue space averages about 230 metres away, and about 52 bodies of water sit within a kilometre. That's the River Wey, the old sandpits the anglers use, and Papercourt Lake, where the sailing club races. Send spent centuries digging holes in the ground, and the holes filled up.
Leisure cycling needs a journey first. The National Cycle Network averages about 2.5 kilometres away, and no postcodes sit close to it. There's no ancient woodland inside the area either.
The land around the village does the heavier heritage work. The ruins of Newark Priory, an Augustinian house, stand north of the River Wey. A nearby common has a disc barrow and an old boundary earthwork. The Wey and Godalming Navigations are a conservation area in their own right. Within the surrounding area are the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley, Clandon Park and Sutton Place. Send Marsh, Burntcommon and Ripley sit alongside. The village keeps things modest, and the parishes around it bring the stately homes and ruins.
Private outdoor space is generous. Garden area comes to about 370,000 square metres per 1,000 residents, and that measure counts people's own plots, not farmland. Most homes here have a proper garden, not a yard with a pot plant. That's what the post-war plots were designed for, and owners have kept them that way.
Across the area's property records, there are 42 shops, eight pubs, five restaurants and 49 offices. The business-rates valuation list counts 60 rateable premises in the village. The largest groups are 12 shops and 11 warehouses, followed by smaller clusters of offices and other commercial property. The two lists count on different bases, so don't expect them to agree. Both describe premises on record, not businesses currently trading. The mix reads more workshop and yard than cafe culture.
Eleven food premises have a hygiene rating. About 73% hold the top score of five and none sit at the low end. It's a small sample, but a clean one.
Fine-particle air pollution across the Guildford council area averaged about 7 micrograms per cubic metre in 2024. That figure is for the whole borough, not the village's own air.
No protected-landscape designation overlaps Send: no area of outstanding natural beauty, no site of special scientific interest and no ancient woodland. That isn't a flaw. It means the countryside here is working land and water, open to use, not a landscape held in trust behind interpretation boards.
The surroundings are one of Send's real strengths. There's water and green space on almost every doorstep and a big garden behind most houses, and the grander estates and ruins are close by.