Footpaths, including the North Downs Way, lead through fields and long-established hillside woodlands along the ranges of hills.

[2] Chilworth is split between two civil parishes, Shalford to the west and the largely uninhabited St Martha's to the east, and is in the south-east of the borough of Guildford in the mid-west of Surrey.

[9] Before the railway was built, Chilworth was a hamlet of a few cottages around the bridge over the Tillingbourne on the direct lane to Guildford via Tyting, where the main entrance to the gunpowder works was located.

[11] Since 2011 Benedictine monks have inhabited a hilltop monastery in the southern extreme of the parish of St Martha's, straddling northern Wonersh.

[12] Chilworth Manor is a large house between the 'village' (clustered centre) and St Martha's Hill to the north.

It was part of the patrimony granted to Newark Priory when this monastery was founded in the late 12th century,[13] and was administered as a monastic manor until the abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII.

Chilworth Manor is a grade II listed building[14] and has recently been extensively restored and refurbished by new owners, following the death of its previous occupant, Lady Heald.

[2] Chilworth railway station is on the North Downs Line, and is served every two hours by trains to Redhill and Reading.

Chilworth is covered by ADSL, VDSL, Full fibre and Mobile Broadband based high speed internet services.

Broadband for Surrey Hills (B4SH) installed full fibre (FTTP) to the sparsely populated north edge of the village in mid-2021 and Roseacre Gardens to the east in December 2022.