Thames Ditton
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Thames Ditton railway station links Thames Ditton toLondon Waterloo, serving the large commuter population, local workforce and Esher college student population.
Its High Street is a conservation area that has a mixture of residential housing, office and retail shops in about equal proportion. The village High Street retains a pharmacy, greengrocery, florist, coffee/delicatessen shop, four restaurants (Chinese, Indian, Italian and Thai), sandwich/coffee shops, a photographers and a post-office/convenience store. There are also a hairdressers, estate agents, two gift shops, a silversmith and jewellers, tennis and hockey equipment shop (the latter run by an Olympic gold-medallist), a small modern art gallery, two beauty salons and an undertaker. In nearby Summer Road there is a newsagents, convenience store, dry cleaners and a high end interior designer. There are six pubs in the village, two with riverside frontages. The George and Dragon on the corner of High Street and Station Road hosts Thames Ditton Farmers’ Market every 4 th Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Boyle Farm
Boyle Farm was the earlier name of the Home of Compassion, a wide range mansion care home by the River Thames formerly set among fields rather than private houses.
St Nicholas Church
The ecclesiastical parish church (since the English Reformation, implying Church of England) was built almost wholly in the early medieval period demonstrates fine architecture and is listed in the highest category of building.
Giggs Hill Green
This triangular village green adjoins Portsmouth Road and gives its name to a locality of the village marked on some maps, but within any official status such as wards, the main secondary parade of shops of the village is here, which also serves that part of Long Ditton on the riverside part of the Portsmouth Road.
Transport links
Rail
Thames Ditton railway station is on the Hampton Court branch line from London Waterloo to Hampton Court is within a ten-minute walk. Rail services are currently provided by South Western Railway. Journey time to London Waterloo is circa 33 minutes (it is also possible to connect with faster trains at Surbiton). Currently, trains run every half hour from circa 6am to 11:30pm to London Waterloo.
Bus
Various buses run through Thames Ditton, including the 515 (Mon-Sat, hourly, Kingston-Surbiton-Thames Ditton-Esher-Hersham-Weybridge), 513 (Mon-Fri, twice daily, Kingston-Thames Ditton-Esher-Okshott-Cobham), 514 (Mon-Sat, twice daily, Kingston-Surbiton-Thames Ditton-East and West Molesey-Fieldcommon-Hersham-Weybridge- Brooklands) and services 458 and 715 which run via the Pourtsmouth Road to serve Walton, Staines, Cobham and Guildford. The 715 is diverted via Thames Ditton village on Sundays.
Road
From Thames Ditton, it is approximately five minutes by road to the A3 (eastbound) or ten minutes to A3 (both ways). It is circa 15 minutes to the M3 and M25 and circa 35 minutes to Heathrow.
Education
- Thames Ditton Infant School
- Thames Ditton Junior School
- St Paul’s RC Primary School
For senior education this is outside of the boundaries but nearby, at Secondary School and Sixth Form College and Esher College.
Preparatory and independent schools (private sector junior to 13 years and at senior levels) are outside of the boundaries but relatively nearby, including one in Weston Green.
The cricket club has enjoyed great success in recent seasons, and in 2019 completed a “treble” of promotions, with the 1st XI (captained by Chris Dixon), the 2nd XI (captained by Amrik Natt) and the 3rd XI (captained by Chris Harding) all achieving promotion for their relevant divisions.
Information from Wikipedia 2022
Amenities in Thames Ditton
Local Schools in Thames Ditton
School Name & Address
Thames Ditton Infant School
Speer Road, Thames Ditton KT7 0PW
Thames Ditton Junior School
Mercer Close, Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT7 0BS
St Paul’s RC Primary School
Hampton Court Way, Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT7 0LP
Preparatory and Independent Schools
Weston Green Preparatory School
Weston Green Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT7 0JN