Thames Ditton
Thames Ditton is a country village by and on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge district of Surrey, England. Besides a large occupied island in the river, it rests on the southerly bank, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 km) southwest of Charing Cross in main London. Thames Ditton is simply outdoors Greater London yet within the Greater London Urban Area as defined by the Office for National Statistics. Its clustered village centre and also purchasing location on a winding High Street is bordered by real estate, schools as well as sporting activities locations. Its waterfront faces the Thames Path and Hampton Court Palace Gardens and also golf course in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most business location is spread out throughout its conservation area and also consists of restaurants, cafés, shops and also companies. Its railway station, either on the Hampton Court branch line, is 0.31 miles (500 m) from the waterfront end of the town centre and the village of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. Both various other breakaway towns are Claygate as well as Hinchley Wood and also today the only called sub-locality or area in the town is Winters Bridge, on the road that made use of to be the main Portsmouth Road from London, yet is now a neighborhood course, bypassed by long-haul website 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 between Surbiton, Esher and East Molesey. Although decreased to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it formerly covered more than four square miles (10 km2).