Thames Ditton is a suv town by as well as on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England. Apart from a huge lived in island in the river, it pushes the southern financial institution, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 km) southwest of Charing Cross in central London. Thames Ditton is simply outdoors Greater London yet within the Greater London Urban Area as specified by the Office for National Statistics. Its gathered village centre and purchasing location on a winding High Street is bordered by real estate, colleges and also sports areas. Its waterfront faces the Thames Path as well as Hampton Court Palace Gardens and golf links in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most commercial location is spread throughout its conservation area and also has dining establishments, cafés, stores and also businesses. Its train station, a couple of on the Hampton Court branch line, is 0.31 miles (500 m) from the waterfront end of the town centre and the village of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. Both various other breakaway villages are Claygate as well as Hinchley Wood and 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, but is currently a regional route, bypassed by long-haul traffic by the A3 to the south and also eastern of Claygate. Thames Ditton joins Long Ditton and also Weston Green in occupying the land in between Surbiton, Esher as well as East Molesey. Although decreased to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it previously covered greater than four square miles (10 km2).