Thames Ditton is a country town by as well as on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge district of Surrey, England. Aside from a huge inhabited island in the river, it rests on the southern bank, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 kilometres) southwest of Charing Cross in central London. Thames Ditton is simply outside Greater London yet within the Greater London Urban Area as defined by the Office for National Statistics. Its clustered village centre and buying location on a winding High Street is surrounded by real estate, institutions and sporting activities areas. Its waterfront deals with the Thames Path and Hampton Court Palace Gardens and golf course in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most industrial location is spread out throughout its sanctuary and also contains restaurants, cafés, stores and organisations. Its train station, a couple of on the Hampton Court branch line, is 0.31 miles (500 m) from the riverside end of the village centre and the village of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. Both other breakaway villages are Claygate as well as Hinchley Wood as well as today the only called sub-locality or area in the village is Winters Bridge, on the road that made use of to be the main Portsmouth Road from London, yet is currently a regional course, bypassed by long-haul traffic by the A3 to the south as well as eastern of Claygate. Thames Ditton joins Long Ditton and Weston Green in inhabiting the land between Surbiton, Esher and East Molesey. Although decreased to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it previously covered more than four square miles (10 km2).