West Byfleet is a town in Surrey which grew up around its fairly small quit on the London & South Western Railway: the station, originally Byfleet as well as Woodham, opened in 1887. Greater than 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) from the medieval village of Byfleet, the initial focus of a brand-new advancement soon established its very own economy in addition to that of a reliant London commuter village and also spread in a lot of directions to its borders consisting of to the boundary of the old negotiation, divided by the protected London Orbital motorway today. The starting point of worship was devoted in 1912, the parish of West Byfleet related to it was developed in 1917. The town is bounded to the north by the Basingstoke Canal and to the eastern by the M25 and the Wey Navigation Canal. Forming part of the adjoining growth centred on London as well as its 'stockbroker belt' simply outside the M25 motorway, it is 8 miles from London Heathrow and also equidistant in between business parks of Woking and Brooklands. In city government it creates a ward on the very same basis as its church in the Borough of Woking.