Esher is a community in Surrey, England, to the eastern of the River Mole. Esher is an outlying residential area of London near the London-Surrey Boundary, as well as with Esher Commons at its southerly end, the community notes one limit of the Greater London Built-Up Area. Esher has a direct commercial high street and is or else suv in thickness, with differing altitudes, few high rise structures and also very short sections of double carriageway within the ward itself. Esher covers a large location, in between 13 and also 15.4 miles southwest of Charing Cross. In the south it is bounded by the A3 Portsmouth Road which is of metropolitan motorway standard as well as buffered by the Esher Commons. Esher is bisected by the A307, traditionally the Portsmouth Road, which for around 1 mile (1.6 km) creates its high street. Esher train station (offered by the South West Main Line) attaches the community to London Waterloo. Sandown Park Racecourse is in the community near the station. In the south, Claremont Landscape Garden had and also handled by the National Trust, when belonged, as their British house, to Princess Charlotte as well as her hubby Leopold I of Belgium. As necessary, the community was selected to have a water fountain by Queen Victoria and has a nearby Diamond Jubilee column embossed with an alleviation of the king as well as topped by a statue of Britannia. Unite, the union, trains reps at its Esher Place centre, as well as the community has the offices of Elmbridge Borough Council in its high street.