Thames Ditton is a rural village by and on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England. In addition to a huge populated island in the river, it pushes the southerly financial institution, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 kilometres) southwest of Charing Cross in main London. Thames Ditton is just outside Greater London however within the Greater London Urban Location as specified by the Office for National Statistics. Its clustered town centre as well as buying location on a winding High Street is surrounded by housing, colleges and also sports areas. Its waterfront deals with the Thames Path and also Hampton Court Palace Gardens and also golf course in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its most commercial area is spread throughout its conservation area and also includes restaurants, cafés, shops and also organisations. Its train station, either on the Hampton Court branch line, is 0.31 miles (500 m) from the riverside end of the town centre and the village of Weston Green that hived off from it in 1939. The two other breakaway villages are Claygate and Hinchley Wood and today the only named sub-locality or area in the town is Winters Bridge, on the road that made use of to be the main Portsmouth Road from London, yet is now a local path, bypassed by long-haul web traffic by the A3 to the south and east of Claygate. Thames Ditton signs up with Long Ditton as well as Weston Green in inhabiting the land between Surbiton, Esher and also East Molesey. Although lowered to less than one square mile (2.6 km2), it previously covered greater than 4 square miles (10 km2).