Venue and How to get to MSSL
The workshop will be held at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Accommodation is available nearby and a shuttle will be provided between the accommodation and MSSL. The full
address for MSSL is:
Mullard Space Science Laboratory
Holmbury St. Mary
Dorking
Surrey RH5 6NT
United Kingdom.
MSSL lies approximately 40 miles to the south-west of London, in the centre of
the Guildford / Dorking / Horsham 'triangle'.
Heathrow Airport is about an hour's
drive away and Gatwick Airport about 40 minutes. The nearest mainline train
stations with fast connections to London are Guildford (35 mins to Waterloo) and
Gatwick (30 mins to Victoria on the Gatwick Express). There are also mainline
stations at Dorking and Horsham. For information about train times and
connections please try National Rail.
- From Gatwick Airport: Gatwick station is positioned in the South Terminal
of the airport and provides direct rail-air link trains for Guildford hourly between
10.03am and 4.03pm, journey time 38 minutes. Other times vary.
- From Heathrow Airport: Rail-air link coaches leave Terminal 4 for Woking
Station from 6.10am to 11.00pm, picking up from terminals 2, 3 and 1. Between
9.00am and 8.00pm they run every half-an-hour, otherwise it is an hourly service.
Time to Woking, 50 minutes. There are then frequent trains from Woking to
Guildford.
Travelling from the airports to MSSL you may find it easiest to rent a car, while a
taxi ride is the best option from the nearest mainline train stations. To book a taxi we recommend:
Cranleigh Airlink Taxi - airlink_cranleigh_taxis@yahoo.co.uk
For those travelling to MSSL by car, road maps of the surrounding area are available (.pdf document) or you can find us here on Google Maps.
If you have any questions regarding travel or lift sharing please contact:
Lucie Green
lmg AT mssl.ucl.ac.uk
01483 204100
Last Revised: Monday, 11-Nov-2009
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