It is bounded on the west and north by Worplesdon, on the east by Merrow, on the south by St. Martha's, Shalford, and the Guildford parishes.

The terrain includes the chalk ridge east of Guildford, the Thanet and Woolwich beds, the London Clay, and the sand and alluvium of the Wey Valley.

[2] According to John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72), the manor of Stoke-next-Guildford belonged to the Crown from the time of King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) until that of King John (1166–1216), when it was given to the Diocese of London.

[3] The Cobham and Guildford railway line was opened in 1885 with a station in the parish on the London road.

The church has a squat and battlemented 15th-century tower, but the rest is mainly Victorian, with plain walls, windows and roofs.