Tadworth is a huge country village in Surrey in the south-east of the Epsom Downs, part of the North Downs. It develops part of the District of Reigate and also Banstead. At the 2001 census Tadworth had a population of 9,522. Neighbouring settlements include Walton-on-the-Hill, Kingswood, Epsom, Burgh Heath, Banstead, Reigate. Tadworth lay within the Copthorne hundred, an administrative division developed by the Saxons and also later taken on by the Normans. There are no watercourses draining the location as the chalk easily soaks up water on the Downs. The Tattenham Corner Branch Line develops a deep, bent reducing running previous yards in the centre of the town as it turns to the racecourse to the north, and gets here from a passage promptly southern of the Tadworth Roundabout protecting the carefully wooded health there. The village joins in its north-west corner the top of Langley Vale, topped by the Iron Age unit in South Tadworth Farm. Epsom Downs Racecourse is residence to The Derby and develops an adjoining development with the Tattenhams, a ward including: the neighbourhoods of Great Tattenhams in the north by Nork, Banstead; Little Tattenhams and also Tattenham Corner.