Thames Ditton is a rural village by and also on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England. Aside from a large populated island in the river, it pushes the southern bank, 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 town centre as well as shopping location on a winding High Street is bordered by housing, institutions and sporting activities locations. Its waterfront faces the Thames Path and also Hampton Court Palace Gardens and golf links in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most industrial area is spread throughout its sanctuary and also contains dining establishments, cafés, stores as well as services. Its railway station, either on the Hampton Court branch line, is 0.31 miles (500 m) from the riverside end of the village centre and also the town of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. The two other breakaway towns are Claygate as well as Hinchley Wood and today the only called sub-locality or area in the village is Winters Bridge, on the road that used to be the major Portsmouth Road from London, yet is currently a neighborhood path, bypassed by long-haul website traffic by the A3 to the south and also eastern of Claygate. Thames Ditton signs up with Long Ditton as well as Weston Green in occupying the land in between Surbiton, Esher and East Molesey. Although lowered to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it formerly covered more than four square miles (10 km2).