The area around Worplesdon is mostly common land, with houses fitted in around it. Green space starts at the end of the drive. Water is a short stroll further on. Pubs comfortably outnumber restaurants. The countryside here seems perfectly happy to be this close to Guildford.
Green space here is barely a walk. On average the nearest public green space is about 168 metres from home, and there are about six within a kilometre. The wooded commons around the parish are managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust. They're a mix of heather, grassland and patches of woodland. In Worplesdon, the dog gets a better deal than the commuter.
Water is close as well. The nearest pond, stream or lake averages about 377 metres away, and there are about 11 within a kilometre. None of it is the sea, and nobody is selling a river view. It's the everyday water of a rural parish, and it's everywhere.
For cycling, the National Cycle Network is on average about 2.5 kilometres away, and no postcodes in the parish sit close to it. The commons are made for walking. For a proper ride, the start is a short drive away.
The wider rated-premises data counts 102 shops, 18 pubs and 9 restaurants across the surrounding area. In food-hygiene terms, the parish has six rated food outlets. Beer outnumbers fine dining, as it does in most villages that still have a cricket team.
Air quality is measured for the whole council area, not the parish. Fine particles across the Guildford area averaged about 7 micrograms per cubic metre in 2024.
The parish isn't really one village. It takes in Worplesdon itself around the church on Perry Hill, plus Fairlands, Jacobs Well, Rydeshill and Wood Street Village, spread out among the commons rather than packed round a green. Worplesdon Memorial Hall, built in 1922 to remember the dead of the First World War, sits beside a playground, tennis courts and the cricket ground. An agricultural college stands on the hill to the west. Pirbright, with its army presence, is a neighbour to the north-west. It's a place where the social calendar runs through the memorial hall and the cricket fixtures, and weekends run to a timetable.
Private outdoor space is generous. Across the parish there are about 381,000 square metres of garden for every 1,000 residents. Houses here come with proper gardens, and the lawnmower is a serious purchase.
The valuation list for business rates shows how little commercial activity there is inside the parish. It holds 16 rateable premises, spread across different uses, with no single type accounting for more than three. Those are premises on a list, not a count of businesses trading today. There's no high street.
Eating out is limited in choice but clean. All six rated food outlets in the parish hold the top food-hygiene score, and none are rated low. Keeping a perfect record across six kitchens is easier than across sixty, but it's still a perfect record.
There are no protected landscape designations over the parish itself: no Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, no Site of Special Scientific Interest and no ancient woodland on the record. That isn't a mark against it. The commons don't need a designation to be used every day, and they are.
The surroundings are one of Worplesdon's real strengths. Common land, water and big gardens are within easy reach of almost every door, and it's the reason people put up with the prices.