Geography
Felbridge is centred 7.7 miles (12.4 km) south of Oxted, south of 25 miles (40 km) London and 24.7 miles (39.8 km) ESE of Surrey's county town, Guildford.
Hedgecourt lake is immediately northwest of the village centre in the heart of the civil parish, approximately 44 acres (18 ha) in size.
Elevations range between 115m AOB towards the south of the eastern boundary, fields adjoining Chartham Wood and similarly 102m AOB along West Park Road by the Effingham Park Hotel in the southwest, to 53m AOB along Felbridge Water between Felcourt and Newchapel, in the northeast of the parish, a tributary of the River Eden.
The soil part of a wide 15 miles (24 km) to 20 miles (32 km) band south of the Greensand Ridge of "slowly permeable loamy/clayey slightly acid but base-rich soil, however much of the southern half is "free-draining slightly acid sandy/loamy soil" as this lies on the remaining gentle upland of Hastings Sand.
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