omshall (locally pronounced Gumshal) is largely a collection of Victorian cottages set in a village on low sandy hills to the south of the Downs and a much more modest version of Shere its ‘precious’ neighbour.  The older village houses are of modest size and often semi-detached.  Mostly restored with sympathy as a collective group they are a credit to the village generally and their owners. Gomshall is handy for transport links (one of the few Surrey Hills villages with its own station) and situated around the A25, a good, unobstructed country road connecting Guildford with Dorking. Village homes mostly stretch south of the A25 around the few village roads some located in the woods and often on roads extending as bridlepaths hidden from the view of through traffic.

Unlike Shere though Gomshall has some unsympathetic, albeit out of view, commercialism such as the large caravan pitch next to its little railway station on the east/west line.  The site of the large tannery which was such a dominant feature of the village is now a new development by Fairview Homes. This tannery was first recorded as far back as the 16th century and has only recently ceased to exist. At the western end of the village, the dark red brick-built Tudor King John House was formerly known as Old Tannery House and had its own tanyard. Alongside is a 16th century packhorse bridge over the Tillingbourne river.