It covers the area from the southern edge of the built-up centre of Guildford and steep Guildown,[2] the start of the Hog's Back and part of the North Downs AONB, to New Pond Farm by Godalming and the edge of Peasmarsh.

To the west and also directly south of the Pilgrims' Way are listed Braboeuf Manor (University of Law, Guildford), the manor house of which was rebuilt in the late 16th-century, its front dating to the 19th-century,[3] and Mount Browne Surrey Police training headquarters.

[n 1][2] Until shortly after 1911, the area extended over the Guildown and into Guildford Park, the area around Guildford railway station in the north[2] and the Hog's Back marked the southern limits of Windsor Great Park, the main royal demesne in England.

[1] Guildford Railway station is on the same bank directly in Guildford town centre and Shalford railway station (with Reading to Gatwick Airport trains) lies less than 300m east of the eastern boundary.

The place is beholden on adjoining Guildford for most of its amenities, other than the farm produce of the Loseley estate, for instance, it has no functional church within its bounds.

[1] At the time of the Domesday Book Littleton was held by Wulwi or Wulfwi, a huntsman, who it records held it in Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor's time, had two households described as a villager and a cottager and the place only rendered £1 from its assets including a ploughland for two plough teams and 2 acres (0.81 ha) of meadow.