Esher

Esher
Esher is located in Surrey
Esher
Esher
Location within Surrey
Area9.3 km2 (3.6 sq mi)
Population6,743 (Esher town, 2011 census),[1] or 50,904 (in 2011) for the Esher Built-up Area Subdivision (including East and West Molesey, Thames Ditton, Hinchley Wood and Claygate)[2]
• Density725/km2 (1,880/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTQ145645
• London14.1 miles (22.7 km)
Civil parish
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District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townESHER
Postcode districtKT10
Dialling code01372
PoliceSurrey
FireSurrey
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
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51°22′09″N 0°21′54″W / 51.3691°N 0.365°W / 51.3691; -0.365

Esher (/ˈʃər/ EE-shər) is a town in the borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole.

Esher is an outlying suburb of London, close to the London–Surrey border; with Esher Commons at its southern end, the town marks one limit of the Greater London Built-Up Area. Elevations range from 10m to 47m above sea level.

Esher has a linear commercial high street and is otherwise suburban in density, with varying elevations, few high rise buildings and very short sections of dual carriageway within the ward itself. Esher covers a large area, between 13 and 15.4 miles southwest of Charing Cross.[n 1] In the south it is bounded by the A3 Portsmouth Road which is of urban motorway standard and buffered by the Esher Commons.

Esher is bisected by the A307, historically the Portsmouth Road, which for approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) forms its high street. Esher railway station (served by the South West Main Line) connects the town to London Waterloo.

Sandown Park Racecourse is in the town near the station. In the south, Claremont Landscape Garden owned and managed by the National Trust, once belonged to Princess Charlotte and her husband Leopold I of Belgium. Accordingly, the town was selected to have a fountain by Queen Victoria and has an adjacent Diamond Jubilee column embossed with a relief of the monarch and topped by a statue of Britannia. Unite, the union, trains representatives at its Esher Place centre, and the town has the offices of Elmbridge Borough Council in its high street.

  1. ^ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density Archived 11 February 2003 at the Wayback Machine United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
  2. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Esher Built-up area sub division (1119884889)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 August 2020.


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