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Thames Ditton is a village dating from the late 12C situated 12.2 miles (19.6 km) south west of Charing Cross and between the towns of Kingston Upon Thames and Esher, and it borders the town of Surbiton The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ... Kingston upon Thames, part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is an ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned, and is now a lively suburb of London. ... Esher is a town in the Surrey borough of Elmbridge in South East England near the River Mole. ... Surbiton is a suburban area of London situated in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. ...

The River Thames bounds the village to the north, and there are many pretty views across the river to Hampton Court Palace. The village takes the approximate shape of a triangle, bounded by the Hampton Court Way to the west, and the old Portsmouth Road to the south and east. Thames Ditton lost its isolation to the surrounding London suburbs from the Victorian era and has since had its boundaries merged with the surrounding villages and towns. The Thames (pronounced //) is a river flowing through southern England, in its lower reaches flowing through London into the sea. ... The clock tower straddles the entrance between the inner and outer courts Hampton Court Palace is a former royal place on the north bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames about 12 miles (19 km) southwest and upstream of Central London, nowadays open to... For other places with the same name, see Portsmouth (disambiguation). ...

Today

As of 1999, Thames Ditton is reckoned to be home to approximately 7,500 people, mainly commuters, and is easily one of the wealthiest communities in the UK, with house prices and demand reflecting current trends. Many new houses have been built in recent years, and building land is at a premium, with a local school causing controversy by selling off playing fields to new developers. According to the 2001 UK Census, Thames Ditton contains a broad spread of age groups peaking between 30 and 55; many families and active retired people find that its quiet atmosphere, excellent local leisure and shopping facilities and proximity to London make it an attractive place to live. As is common in this area of the country however, high house prices mean there is a dearth of affordable housing in the village. Recent property developments were targeted towards the luxury accommodation rather than affordable housing. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Commuting is the process of travelling from a place of residence to a place of work. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton

Thames Ditton has a railway link to London serving its large commuter population. Following successful campaigns by villagers against a supermarket development in the 1990s the village's High Street survives as a retail location with a bakery, pharmacy, greengrocers, florist, off-licence, restaurants and post-office/grocers. There also several hairdressers, estate agents, arty shops and a wedding dress shop. Many residents go to nearby Esher, Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames and East Molesey for their shopping needs. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 632 KB) Summary Taken by the contributor, Summer 2005 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 632 KB) Summary Taken by the contributor, Summer 2005 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Exterior of a typical British supermarket (a Tesco Extra) Exterior of typical North American supermarket (a Safeway) This Flagship Randalls store in Houston, Texas is an example of an upscale supermarket. ... Estate agent is a United Kingdom term roughly synonymous with the United States term real estate broker, a business that arranges the selling, renting or management of homes, land and other buildings. ... Esher is a town in the Surrey borough of Elmbridge in South East England near the River Mole. ... Surbiton is a suburban area of London situated in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. ... Kingston upon Thames, part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is an ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned, and is now a lively suburb of London. ... Molesey is a place in the Elmbridge district of Surrey. ...

Politically, Thames Ditton is part of the Esher and Walton parliamentary constituency and, as at 2005, is a safe Conservative seat. Ian Taylor MP was returned again at the 2005 general election. Locally, the village retains a politically active and influential Residents' Association[1]. The Residents' Associations in the borough of Elmbridge, as in Epsom and Ewell, have dominated local administration. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... Elmbridge is a borough in Surrey, England. ... Epsom and Ewell is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England, covering Epsom and Ewell. ...

The village flooded in 1968 when the rivers Ember and Mole burst their banks. The extent of the flooding reached from the River Thames to the Portsmouth Road and caused flood damage to many homes including some in the Embercourt area. The flood water lasted for several days and prevented locals from carrying out their regular activities.

A burst water main in December 2006 near the station caused local flooding across the village. Local shops in the high street were damaged and applied for compensation. The pipe that burst was said to be over 150 years old.

History

For some time local historians have written that the first mention of Thames Ditton came with the Domesday Book of 1086. But there are two pre-Norman mentions (Source: PASE database):

• In a charter dated 983, King Æthelred granted to Æthelmær, his minister nine hides (cassati) at Thames Ditton, Surrey.
• In The Cartulary of the Abbey of Eynsham Transaction, King Æthelred sent to Eynsham Abbey confirmation of the foundation by Æthelmær, the endowment including 20 hides at Esher, Surrey (granted by Beorhthelm, bishop, to Æthelweard, and bequeathed by Æthelweard to his son, Æthelmær); and land at Thames Ditton, Surrey, among several other items.

Thames Ditton is then recorded in the Domesday Book. Following the Norman Conquest, the land was granted to the monks of Merton Priory, and a church was built, the first recorded incumbent being in 1179. A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ... Events Third Council of the Lateran condemned Waldensians and Cathars as heretics, institutes a reformation of clerical life, and creates the first ghettos for Jews Afonso I is recognized as the true King of Portugal by Portugal the protection of the Catholic Church against the Castillian monarchy Philip II is...

Thames Ditton railway bridge

Isolated on marshy wetlands, the village remained an insignificant settlement until the building of Hampton Court Palace by Thomas Wolsey in the early 16th century. Once the palace was seized by Henry VIII in 1525, Thames Ditton began to grow as palace officials and other workers took up residence there, and was soon to become a prosperous village. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1360, 602 KB)This photograph was taken by Tim Rogers on Saturday 2 April 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1360, 602 KB)This photograph was taken by Tim Rogers on Saturday 2 April 2005. ... Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (c. ... Silver groat of Henry VIII, minted ca. ... Events January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manzs mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. ...

Thames Ditton Island was the main crossing point across the Thames from Surrey to Hampton Court Palace in Middlesex. There are three Islands in the River Thames near Thames Ditton, Surrey. ... Not to be confused with Surry. ... Hampton Court Palace with the Union Jack flying Hampton Court Palace is a former royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, south west London, United Kingdom. ... Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest (after Rutland). ...

During the 18th century, the roads around the village were plagued with highwaymen, and influential voices within the community began to call for an organised police force. Folk image of a mounted highwayman Highwayman was a term used particularly in Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries to describe criminals who robbed people travelling by stagecoach and other modes of transport along public highways. ...

Of particular architectural merit is Boyle Farm, previously known as Forde's Farm, and subsequently renamed the Home of Compassion. Boyle Farm was the earlier name of the Home of Compassion, a mansion on the banks of the River Thames in Thames Ditton, Surrey. ...

A pair of Ditton speakers

In 1801, the population of Thames Ditton was still small: 1,288 people living in 265 houses; 167 of the workers were occupied in agriculture and 87 in trade, manufacture and handicraft. Because of the large number of mansions and estates in the area, there would have been many domestic and ancillary employees living in the village, some working at Hampton Court Palace. Image File history File links Celestion_ditton. ... Image File history File links Celestion_ditton. ... Hampton Court Palace with the Union Jack flying Hampton Court Palace is a former royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, south west London, United Kingdom. ...

During the 19th century, the village continued to grow, with the arrival of the railway in 1849 and the building of the first school, and local life was utterly changed by the expansion of London's suburbs. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ...

A school for girls in Thames Ditton was started in 1812 or earlier (i.e. before the end of the Napoleonic Wars), thanks to wealthy people such as Baroness de Ross. Some form of National School for girls operated from September 1812, and boys were taught from 1818. At least 60 girls were being educated in 1816-17, some coming from Molesey and Tolworth. Combatants Allies: Austrian Empire[1] Kingdom of Portugal Kingdom of Prussia[1] Russian Empire[2] Kingdom of Spain[3] Kingdom of Sweden United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[4] French Empire - Kingdom of Holland - Kingdom of Italy - Kingdom of Naples - Duchy of Warsaw - Kingdom of Bavaria[5] - Kingdom of... Charlotte Fitzgerald-de Ros (1769-1831) was born Charlotte Boyle Walsingham in Castlemartyr, Cork, Ireland. ... Molesey is a place in the Elmbridge district of Surrey. ... Tolworth is a mostly residential suburb of London in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. ...

In the 1840s there was a National School housed near St Nicholas Churchyard. In 1860, the Rev EH Rogers laid the first stone of the schools at the end of Church Walk where generations of Thames Ditton children were educated. It was expanded in 1877. St Nicholas Church in Thames Ditton is an ancient parish church that dates back to the 11th Century. ...

Between 1911 and 1980, the village was home to the AC Cars factory, which was latterly located in the High Street. The site is today occupied by an office complex named Ferry Works, incorporating an architectural practice. Celestion were also located for some years in Thames Ditton, producing the famous 'Ditton' Range of loudspeakers. 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... A.C. Royal Roadster 1924 A.C. 16/70 Sports Drophead Coupé 1935 A.C. ACE 2-Seater Sports A.C. Greyhound Saloon 1962 1999 Cobra Replica 1971 AC Frua AC Cars Group Ltd. ...

Historical Figures associated with Thames Ditton

Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards (12 February 1781 - 29 January 1875) was an English jurist and politician. ... Charlotte Fitzgerald-de Ros (1769-1831) was born Charlotte Boyle Walsingham in Castlemartyr, Cork, Ireland. ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Lord Henry Fitzgerald (born 30th July 1761) was the fourth son of the 1st Duke of Leinster and the Duchess of Leinster (née Lady Emily Lennox). ... 1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Arthur Onslows son George (1731-1814), who had no brother and whose only sister died in 1751, was said to be seriously lacking in his fathers qualities. ... Events 10 Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdoms Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in. ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Arthur Onslow (October 1, 1691 - February 17, 1768), English politician, elder son of Foot Onslow (d. ... Of Charlotte Digbys six sons, the only one to be associated with Thames Ditton was the fifth, Stephen, a man of quiet debonaire charm, a strong character, who mixed in court circles and mingled with the great. ... Colonel Sidney Godolphin (1651?-1732) came from an ancient Cornish family. ... Robert Hatton (died 31 March 1661) was a serjeant-at-law, recorder of Kingston upon Thames, JP for Surrey, Justice of Assize for the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, and a Commissioner for the north of England. ... Hewett Cottrell Watson (around 1830) Hewett Cottrell Watson (1804-81) was a botanist, plant ecologist and evolutionist. ...

Sports activities

Summer Party at the Tennis Club

• Weston Green Road is the location of Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club (TDLTC). The club was ravaged in the 1990s by a protracted legal battle with the owner of the site freehold, who wished to build executive homes on the site. Though TDLTC eventually won the case, it lost the rights to use three courts on the adjoining Esher College site, which were themselves subsequently sold to developers. However the club still owns six grass and four hard courts, along with one short tennis court. It also has access to a three new hard courts at Esher College, and a weekend arrangement with Kingston Grammar School to use its courts as an overflow for the junior section.
• Another sports community nearby is the Thames Ditton Squash Club, which is now housed at Colets Health and Fitness Club in the village. It is the strongest club in England, with several national club championships to its name, and a good record in the European championships.
• Colets Health and Fitness Club also is the headquarters of a number of Rugby and Football teams of the Old Paulines (St. Paul's School alumni) who own the grounds.
• Also in Weston Green there is the Old Cranleighan Rugby Football Club, as well as the Old Cranleighan Hockey Club. Having been formed in 1919 and 1921 respectively, the OCRFC and the OCHC moved to their new clubhouse on Portsmouth Road in Thames Ditton in 1928. The clubhouse was substantially renovated and enlarged in 1993 and the club now has some of the best facilities for rugby and hockey in Surrey.

The Old Cranleighan Clubhouse in Thames Ditton, home of the OCRFC & OCHC

• Thames Ditton Cricket Club is the oldest sports club in Thames Ditton. The first recorded match on Giggs Hill Green was in 1833, and the club remains today with hundreds of members and a recently built brand new pavilion. They have three Saturday XI's, and one Sunday team.
• Dittons Skiff and Punting Club is located at the end of Queens Road. Dittons Skiff & Punting Club was formed in 1923. The club has a very active membership with involvement in many events. From the annual regatta's to special events such as the London to Paris endurance event and the Great River Race. International visits from and to foreign shores

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Thames Ditton in arts and literature

• The Monty Python sketch, 'Blackmail', featured a scene set in Thames Ditton, although it was actually filmed in a west London residential road. Surrey place-names feature in many of the early Python sketches, perhaps because the county's association with judges and merchant bankers. The 'brave man' featured in the sketch would like to say he remains happily married to his stoat, Cindy.
• Thames Ditton is also mentioned briefly in the safari park scene of episode two of Reginald Perrin, series one.
• In a letter from Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth of 19th October 1810:

'A very striking instance of your position might be found in the churchyard of Ditton-upon-Thames, if you know such a place. Ditton-upon-Thames has been blessed by the residence of a poet who, for love or money, I do not well know which, has dignified every gravestone for the last few years with brand new verses, all different and all ingenious, with the author's name at the bottom of each. This sweet Swan of Thames has so artfully diversified his strains and his rhymes that the same thought never occurs twice,--more justly, perhaps, as no thought ever occurs at all, there was a physical impossibility that the same thought should recur, It is long since I saw and read these inscriptions; but I remember the impression was of a smug usher at his desk in the intervals of instruction, levelling his pen. Of death, as it consists of dust and worms, and mourners and uncertainty, he had never thought; but the word "death" he had often seen separate and conjunct with other words, till he had learned to speak of all its attributes as glibly as Unitarian Belsham will discuss you the attributes of the word "God" in a pulpit, and will talk of infinity with a tongue that dangles from a skull that never reached in thought and thorough imagination two inches, or farther than from his hand to his mouth, or from the vestry to the sounding-board of the pulpit. But the epitaphs were trim and sprag, and patent, and pleased the survivors of Thames Ditton above the old mumpsimus of Afflictions sore.'

• In 1834 Theodore Hook composed the following lines while angling in a punt at Thames Ditton:

"Here, in a placid waking dream,

I'm free from worldly troubles,

Calm as the rippling silver stream

That in the sunshine baubles;

And when sweet Eden's blissful bowers

Some abler bard has writ on,

Despairing to transcend his powers,

I'll ditto say for DITTON."

• In Ernest William Hornung's The Amateur Cracksman (1899):
  • 'I had let my flat in town, and taken inexpensive quarters at Thames Ditton, on the plea of a disinterested passion for the river.'
  • 'Imagine my excitement and delight! I managed to pay what I owed at Thames Ditton, to squeeze a small editor for a very small check, and my tailors for one more flannel suit. I remember that I broke my last sovereign to get a box of Sullivan's cigarettes for Raffles to smoke on the voyage.'
• The BBC TV series Little Britain featured sketches shot in and around Thames Ditton's Dittons Library. A fictitious postbox can be seen outside the library in one shot.

Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the creators of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. ... The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a novel and British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. ... Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 –- 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). ... William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ... Theodore Hook Theodore Edward Hook (September 22, 1788 - August 24, 1841), English author, was born in London. ... The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach, a 16th century German depiction of Eden The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Ēden, גַּן עֵדֶן) is described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man—Adam—and woman—Eve—lived after they were created by God. ... Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921) was a British author. ... BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1932. ... Little Britain is a character-based BBC radio and television sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. ...

Notable Places in Thames Ditton

Schools and Colleges

• Thames Ditton Infant School
• Thames Ditton Junior School
• Esher Sixth-Form College [2]
• Weston Green School

Landmarks Esher College is a Sixth Form College college located in Thames Ditton, Elmbridge, England. ...

Pubs The Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club is a lawn tennis club in Thames Ditton, Surrey, United Kingdom. ... There are three Islands in the River Thames near Thames Ditton, Surrey. ... There are three Islands in the River Thames near Thames Ditton, Surrey. ... The A307 runs from Kingston upon Thames to Cobham, via Surbiton, Long Ditton, Thames Ditton, and Esher. ... Boyle Farm was the earlier name of the Home of Compassion, a mansion on the banks of the River Thames in Thames Ditton, Surrey. ... Thames Ditton railway station serves Thames Ditton in the Elmbridge district of Surrey, England. ... St Nicholas Church in Thames Ditton is an ancient parish church that dates back to the 11th Century. ... Giggs Hill Green is a large triangular stretch of common ground in Thames Ditton, bordered on one side by the Portsmouth Road. ... Weston Green is an area of Thames Ditton, Surrey. ...

Activities / Things to do