Esher is a town in Surrey, England, to the eastern of the River Mole. Esher is a far-flung suburban area of London near the London-Surrey Boundary, and with Esher Commons at its southern end, the town notes one restriction of the Greater London Built-Up Area. Esher has a direct commercial high road as well as is or else rural in thickness, with differing altitudes, couple of high rise structures and also extremely short areas of dual carriageway within the ward itself. Esher covers a big area, 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 urban motorway criterion and buffered by the Esher Commons. Esher is bisected by the A307, historically the Portsmouth Road, which for approximately 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) forms its high street. Esher train station (served by the South West Main Line) links the town to London Waterloo. Sandown Park Racecourse remains in the community near the station. In the south, Claremont Landscape Garden owned as well as took care of by the National Trust fund, once belonged, as their British house, to Princess Charlotte and also her spouse Leopold I of Belgium. Appropriately, the town was picked to have a fountain by Queen Victoria and also has an adjacent Diamond Jubilee column embossed with an alleviation of the queen and also topped by a statuary of Britannia. Unite, the union, trains agents at its Esher Place centre, and also the town has the offices of Elmbridge Borough Council in its high street.