Just as in the 18C, the city is dominated by the Guildhall with its ornate projecting clock. Nearby Guildford House is an elegant late 17C town house with paintings from the Borough's art collection and a changing programme of exhibitions. Note t..

Beneath the solid sandstone walls of the 12C keep, almost all that remains of Surrey's royal castle, banks of flowerbeds provide spectacular seasonal colour. Jeanne Argent's sculpture, Alice Through the Looking Glass (1990) commemorates writer Lewi..

Mementoes of Lewis Caroll and of gardener and writer Gertrude Jekyll are included in the museum which traces the history of the city and its first inhabitants. Also note displays of Saxon coins, 17C jewellery and examples of Victorian needlework.

Designed by Sir Edward Maufe and bult between 1936 and 1961, the cathedral overlooks the city from its dramatic setting on Stag Hill, an illuminated beacon at night.