Esher is a town in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole. Esher is a provincial residential area of London near the London-Surrey Border, and also with Esher Commons at its southern end, the town notes one limit of the Greater London Built-Up Area. Esher has a straight business high street and is or else country in density, with differing elevations, few high rise buildings and also really brief areas of dual carriageway within the ward itself. Esher covers a large 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 metropolitan motorway requirement and buffered by the Esher Commons. Esher is bisected by the A307, historically the Portsmouth Road, which for around 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) creates its high street. Esher train station (served by the South West Main Line) links the town to London Waterloo. Sandown Park Racecourse is in the community near the station. In the south, Claremont Landscape Garden had and took care of by the National Trust fund, as soon as belonged, as their British house, to Princess Charlotte and also her husband Leopold I of Belgium. Accordingly, the town was chosen to have a water fountain by Queen Victoria and also has an adjacent Diamond Jubilee column embossed with an alleviation of the monarch and topped by a sculpture of Britannia. Unite, the union, trains reps at its Esher Place centre, as well as the town has the workplaces of Elmbridge Borough Council in its high street.