Thames Ditton
Thames Ditton is a rural town by and also on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge district of Surrey, England. Apart from a big lived in island in the river, it lies on the southerly financial institution, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 kilometres) southwest of Charing Cross in main London. Thames Ditton is just outdoors Greater London yet within the Greater London Urban Location as defined by the Office for National Statistics. Its gathered village centre as well as shopping location on a winding High Street is surrounded by housing, colleges and sports areas. Its waterfront deals with the Thames Path and also Hampton Court Palace Gardens and also golf links in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most commercial area is spread out throughout its sanctuary as well as contains dining establishments, cafés, shops and organisations. Its railway station, either on the Hampton Court branch line, is 0.31 miles (500 m) from the riverside end of the town centre as well as the town of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. The two other breakaway towns are Claygate and also Hinchley Wood as well as today the only named sub-locality or neighbourhood in the village is Winters Bridge, on the road that made use of to be the main Portsmouth Road from London, however is currently a neighborhood route, bypassed by long-haul website traffic by the A3 to the south and also eastern of Claygate. Thames Ditton signs up with Long Ditton and Weston Green in inhabiting the land in between Surbiton, Esher as well as East Molesey. Although lowered to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it formerly covered more than 4 square miles (10 km2).
