Thames Ditton
Thames Ditton is a rural town by as well as on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England. In addition to a huge inhabited island in the river, it pushes the southern bank, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 kilometres) southwest of Charing Cross in central London. Thames Ditton is just outside Greater London yet within the Greater London Urban Area as specified by the Office for National Statistics. Its gathered town centre and also purchasing area on a winding High Street is bordered by housing, schools and also sports locations. Its riverside faces the Thames Path and Hampton Court Palace Gardens as well as golf links in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most industrial location is spread throughout its conservation area and also consists of dining establishments, cafés, stores and services. Its train 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 town of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. Both other breakaway villages are Claygate and Hinchley Wood and today the only named sub-locality or area in the town is Winters Bridge, when traveling that used to be the main Portsmouth Road from London, however is currently a neighborhood path, bypassed by long-haul traffic by the A3 to the south and eastern of Claygate. Thames Ditton joins Long Ditton as well as Weston Green in occupying the land between Surbiton, Esher and East Molesey. Although decreased to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it formerly covered greater than 4 square miles (10 km2).