Location for a home ~ Comment: Highly recommended,  hilly rural lifestyle.  Superb walking and riding countryside, picturesque and scenic.

Watch out warnings:  Especially in the hills, cut off from facilities including mains gas and drainage, you might not be on a paper round either ~ essential to have a car.

Nearerest rail station: Gomshall (east/west) Dorking (north/south)
Shopping:  Abinger Hammer and Westcott for village grocery shopping ~ Dorking or Guildford towns
 
Abinger is the longest parish in Surrey stretching over nine miles from the North Downs, across the Holmsdale, over wild Greensand Hills to the oak woodlands of the Weald.   This is prime Surrey rural countryside, varied and extremely scenic. 

There are two villages rolled into the name of Abinger, Abinger Common and Abinger Hammer separated by several miles of fields and woodland.  Abinger Common is set in the hills to the south of the A25 with St James' Church standing on the village green, alongside a tiny duck pond (beware of ducks on the road) Manor House and local pub, The Abinger Hatch.  The village hall next door accommodates various activities as well as a nursery school and Abinger Primary School is adjacent. 

There are lovely homes of various sizes stretching around and beyond the green stretching north and south from the church, some with fine views.  There is another large green with an entrance called Glebe Gateleft in a more natural state, where sheep used to graze and overlooked by Goddards, a distinguished Lutyens house.

A scattered village around the 550 ft level, on the slopes of the Surrey Hills.  There is a green near the church but no houses around it and then houses further south but no green. St James Church standing on the green was bombed in the second world war and restored in 1950 and then again in 1964 after a fire.  ¾ mile to the East is Friday Street, a well known beauty spot with a group of cottages surrounding a pond in a steep wooded valley.    On the A25 to the North is Abinger Hammer, perhaps the original village centre, with another small green and a typically pretty vignette of tile-hung cottages around the narrow stretch of road