Photo: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0Epsom is home to Epsom Downs Racecourse and the Derby, with Epsom Common and Horton Country Park for walks and Bourne Hall Museum in neighbouring Ewell.
Epsom is a market town known for Epsom Downs Racecourse, run by The Jockey Club, which hosts the Derby festival. To the west of the town, the borough council owns Epsom Common, which it bought in 1935 and which is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Nature Reserve, managed for wildlife with open public access. Horton Country Park, also a Local Nature Reserve, is a landscape of fields, hedgerows, ancient woods and ponds, with good paths and tracks for walking all year. In Ewell, next door, Bourne Hall is home to the borough's museum and a library. Epsom Playhouse, in the town centre, has Snow White as its family pantomime this winter, along with shows for younger children.
Epsom station is managed by Southern and has step free access to all platforms and lifts, but only 29 parking spaces. Epsom Downs station, on Bunbury Way, is also managed by Southern. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council's town car parks include the Ashley Centre multi storey, with 649 spaces, Depot Road and Hook Road. A full day at Hook Road, Depot Road or Upper High Street costs £8, and on Sundays parking in Epsom is a flat £3 for the day. Hook Road car park is locked at 8pm on Saturdays and 5pm on Sundays. In Ewell, Bourne Hall car park allows up to four hours during the day.
Checked 19 October 2026.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0An adventure farm park and small zoo in Horton Country Park, with themed play villages, jumping pillows, an indoor playbarn and more than 70 species of farm and zoo animals. The Imaginarium mixes a reptile house, insects and water play under one roof.
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0A 400-acre country park on the north-west edge of Epsom, about half of it a Local Nature Reserve of fields, hedgerows, ancient coppice woodland and ponds. Paths are open to walkers, cyclists and riders, and Hobbledown, a golf centre and an equestrian centre share the site.
The free local history museum for Epsom and Ewell, in the first-floor gallery of Bourne Hall, a Grade II listed building open since 1970 above the headsprings of the Hogsmill. Displays run from prehistoric times to the present, including a permanent display on Nonsuch Palace.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0Open chalk downland around Epsom Downs Racecourse, home of the Derby, owned by the racecourse and managed by the Epsom and Walton Downs Conservators. Around 150 racehorses train on the gallops each morning, and the afternoons are for walkers, cyclists and riders.
Photo: ogwen, CC BY-SA 3.0A National Nature Reserve of woodland in north-east Surrey looked after by the City of London, known for more than 2,300 ancient oak pollards. Their decaying wood is home to rare insects and fungi, and the common is a few minutes' walk from Ashtead station.
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0A large historic park between Ewell and Cheam on the site of Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace, begun in 1538 and demolished in the 1680s. Today it has open grassland, woodland and formal gardens, with the 19th-century Nonsuch Mansion and a cafe at its centre.
Photo: Richard Rogerson, CC BY-SA 2.0The largest of the four Banstead Commons at 760 acres, a mix of heath, acid grassland meadows and woodland looked after by the Banstead Commons Conservators. More than eight miles of bridle paths and rides cross it, and skylarks breed in the meadows.
Photo of Leatherhead: DimiTalen, CC0A 530-seat theatre and cinema opened in 1969 in a former 1930s cinema, reached by a short corridor off Church Street. The auditorium keeps its original concrete balconies and brick-tile walls, and hosts films, live shows and screenings of opera and theatre.
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0A small local history museum run by volunteers of the Leatherhead and District Local History Society in Hampton Cottage, a timbered 17th-century house on Church Street. It covers Leatherhead, Ashtead, the Bookhams and Fetcham.
Photo: Peter S, CC BY-SA 2.0Open heathland, chalk downland slopes and mixed woodland with a wide network of tracks for walking, cycling and riding. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, with heather, gorse, deer and heathland birds such as stonechats and woodlarks.
A Local Nature Reserve of ancient woodland and chalk grassland that was a medieval royal deer park, enclosed in 1439. The woods are a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and a Narnia-themed nature trail leads through a wardrobe to a sculpture of Aslan.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0Epsom Symphony Orchestra marks its 75th anniversary year with a festive family concert at the Playhouse. David Leonard, known as Miss Trunchbull in the West End's Matilda, narrates Peter and the Wolf.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0A short, interactive Christmas musical from Honalee Media in which Santa's friends try to guess his big Christmas plan. Every child receives a wrapped present from Santa at the end.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0Epsom Playhouse's own annual family pantomime is Snow White for 2026, with scenery, bright costumes and plenty of interactive fun. It runs over Christmas and into the first weekend of January.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0The Horton arts centre in Epsom fills with stalls selling crafts and artworks by makers from Epsom, Surrey and the wider South East. Expect jewellery, textiles, ceramics and prints.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0New for 2026, Hobbledown covers its front lawn in pumpkins, squashes and gourds for families to choose from, all part of a normal day ticket to the adventure park and zoo. In half-term a character trail hands out treats.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0An immersive walk through Santa's Post Office, the Toy Distribution Centre and an Enchanted Forest ends with a private meeting with Santa. Tickets include a full day at Hobbledown with its play villages, indoor play barn and animals.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0A volunteer-run display that has been held since 1971, with profits going to youth charities across Epsom and Ewell. Illusion Fireworks provide both a quieter early show for children and the main display, followed by a bonfire.
Santa sits inside a giant Christmas pudding at Ashtead Park Garden Centre, with time for a chat, photos and an early present. Children also get an elf hunt sheet to complete for a small prize.
Friends of West Ashtead's main fundraiser of the year is a school-field fireworks night with a professional display at 7pm. Food vans, the FOWA bar and a light-up toy stall keep it a relaxed local evening.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0An adventure farm park and small zoo in Horton Country Park, with themed play villages, jumping pillows, an indoor playbarn and more than 70 species of farm and zoo animals. The Imaginarium mixes a reptile house, insects and water play under one roof.
The free local history museum for Epsom and Ewell, in the first-floor gallery of Bourne Hall, a Grade II listed building open since 1970 above the headsprings of the Hogsmill. Displays run from prehistoric times to the present, including a permanent display on Nonsuch Palace.
Photo of Leatherhead: DimiTalen, CC0A 530-seat theatre and cinema opened in 1969 in a former 1930s cinema, reached by a short corridor off Church Street. The auditorium keeps its original concrete balconies and brick-tile walls, and hosts films, live shows and screenings of opera and theatre.
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0A small local history museum run by volunteers of the Leatherhead and District Local History Society in Hampton Cottage, a timbered 17th-century house on Church Street. It covers Leatherhead, Ashtead, the Bookhams and Fetcham.
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0A 400-acre country park on the north-west edge of Epsom, about half of it a Local Nature Reserve of fields, hedgerows, ancient coppice woodland and ponds. Paths are open to walkers, cyclists and riders, and Hobbledown, a golf centre and an equestrian centre share the site.
The free local history museum for Epsom and Ewell, in the first-floor gallery of Bourne Hall, a Grade II listed building open since 1970 above the headsprings of the Hogsmill. Displays run from prehistoric times to the present, including a permanent display on Nonsuch Palace.
Photo of Epsom: Oscar248, CC BY-SA 3.0Open chalk downland around Epsom Downs Racecourse, home of the Derby, owned by the racecourse and managed by the Epsom and Walton Downs Conservators. Around 150 racehorses train on the gallops each morning, and the afternoons are for walkers, cyclists and riders.
Photo: ogwen, CC BY-SA 3.0A National Nature Reserve of woodland in north-east Surrey looked after by the City of London, known for more than 2,300 ancient oak pollards. Their decaying wood is home to rare insects and fungi, and the common is a few minutes' walk from Ashtead station.
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0A large historic park between Ewell and Cheam on the site of Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace, begun in 1538 and demolished in the 1680s. Today it has open grassland, woodland and formal gardens, with the 19th-century Nonsuch Mansion and a cafe at its centre.
Photo: Richard Rogerson, CC BY-SA 2.0The largest of the four Banstead Commons at 760 acres, a mix of heath, acid grassland meadows and woodland looked after by the Banstead Commons Conservators. More than eight miles of bridle paths and rides cross it, and skylarks breed in the meadows.
