Thames Ditton
Thames Ditton is a rural town by and also on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England. Apart from a huge lived in island in the river, it lies on the southerly financial institution, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 km) southwest of Charing Cross in central London. Thames Ditton is just outside Greater London but within the Greater London Urban Location as defined by the Office for National Statistics. Its clustered village centre as well as shopping area on a winding High Street is bordered by housing, schools and also sports areas. Its waterfront encounters the Thames Path as well as Hampton Court Palace Gardens and golf links in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most industrial area is spread out throughout its conservation area and also contains dining establishments, cafés, stores as well as services. Its train station, one of two on the Hampton Court branch line, is 0.31 miles (500 m) from the waterfront end of the village centre and also the village of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. The two various other breakaway towns are Claygate as well as Hinchley Wood and today the only called sub-locality or neighbourhood in the village is Winters Bridge, on the road that made use of to be the primary Portsmouth Road from London, however is now a neighborhood route, bypassed by long-haul traffic by the A3 to the south as well as eastern of Claygate. Thames Ditton joins Long Ditton as well as Weston Green in inhabiting the land in between Surbiton, Esher and also East Molesey. Although decreased to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it previously covered more than 4 square miles (10 km2).