Secret Surrey Episodes Episode guide
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The lost tomb of Dorking
The sealed chamber hidden in the Deepdene hillside.
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The lost road of Hindhead
They buried the tarmac, covered the cat’s eyes, and the A3 vanished into the landscape.
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The legend of the West Clandon Dragon
How a village became obsessed with a mythical creature.
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The inventor who became a national catchphrase
The wonderfully daft contraptions dreamt up in a Surrey shed.
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The hotel where nobody stayed
They kept phone lines open, took booking enquiries and even smiled at the gate.
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The hidden space lab deep in the Surrey Hills
Surrey's world-leading space science laboratory creating hardware for missions on Mars.
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The Guildford diary that rocked America
How a young man's journal found in a garden shed shocked a nation.
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The gruesome murder of an unknown sailor
The turnpike, the murder, the gibbet and the shaming.
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The Ghost of Brooklands
The haunting story of Percy Lambert - the man who never truly left the racetrack.
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The forgotten racecourse
From Grand National to International, the Surrey racecourse that became a runway.
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The forgotten Pet Cemetery of Chobham
The hidden woodland where dogs, cats – and even a champion horse – lie in silence.
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The flight that ended on Reigate Hill
The moving wing tips that mark the exact spot of a dreadful accident.
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The flat-pack church
The prefabricated tin church that arrived in Surrey by horse and cart.
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The famously terrible literary cricket team
They gave us Pooh, Mowgli & Sherlock but were famously terrible at cricket.
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The eerie wall in the woods
Concrete, steel rods and wire - Hitler's Atlantic Wall lurking in Hankley Common.
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The daring Westhumble cave rescue
It was 1952 and a 15-year-old boy found himself trapped underground.
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The Chapel above Guildford
Where a lonely ruin keeps its secrets on the hill.
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The boats with stories
Taking a peak at the historic wooden vessels restored at a boatyard near Chertsey.
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The Batman of Brooklands
The 20 years transformation of a Weybridge garden.
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The astonishing life of Haslemere’s signal box
The Victorian levers and switches still keeping commuters on track.
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Surrey’s hidden Victorian bridges
The mysterious ornate bridges built to move timber through the Surrey Hills.
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Surrey’s emerald invaders
Parakeets are everywhere until you try to spot one.
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Silent Pool’s lost film
The star studded movie shot in Surrey that vanished without explanation.
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Shere’s underground secret
Into the hidden spaces no one was meant to find below the village pub.
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Shere's little secret
The historical hidden gem that only villagers know about.
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Secrets from the cockpit
Glamour, speed and the hidden stories behind the world’s most iconic aircraft.
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Sealed until the Second Coming
The church at Albury that nobody can visit.
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Ripley’s wonder drug
The pharmacy in Ripley that kept an extraordinary secret before being found out.
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Puttenham's hidden goats
Hanging out on the hay bale - they look like the cool kids at school.
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Operation Tendril: The Hidden Web
Sometimes there’s nowhere to hide, even on the dark web.