Thames Ditton is a suburban village by and on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England. Apart from a big occupied island in the river, it rests on the southern bank, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 kilometres) southwest of Charing Cross in central London. Thames Ditton is just outdoors Greater London however within the Greater London Urban Location as defined by the Office for National Statistics. Its clustered village centre as well as buying area on a winding High Street is surrounded by real estate, schools and sporting activities areas. Its waterfront encounters the Thames Path as well as Hampton Court Palace Gardens and also fairway in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most business location is spread throughout its conservation area as well as consists of dining establishments, cafés, shops as well as businesses. Its railway station, one of two on the Hampton Court branch line, is 0.31 miles (500 m) from the riverside end of the town centre and the village of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. The two other breakaway towns are Claygate and also Hinchley Wood and also today the only called sub-locality or area in the village is Winters Bridge, when traveling that used to be the primary Portsmouth Road from London, but is now a neighborhood course, bypassed by long-haul web traffic by the A3 to the south as well as eastern of Claygate. Thames Ditton joins Long Ditton as well as Weston Green in occupying the land in between Surbiton, Esher and East Molesey. Although reduced to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it formerly covered greater than four square miles (10 km2).