Hersham
| Hersham | |
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 Hersham Village |
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 Hersham
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| Hersham shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 10.29 km2 (3.97 sq mi) |
| Population | 12,414 (2011 census) |
| • Density | 1,206/km2 (3,120/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TQ114641 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Walton on Thames |
| Postcode district | KT12 |
| Dialling code | 01932 and 01372 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
Hersham is a village in Surrey, within the Greater London Urban Area and the M25. Its housing is relatively low-rise and diverse and it has four technology/trading estates. The main A3 London to Portsmouth road runs by Painshill on its southern boundary with a roundabout junction. The only contiguous settlement is Walton-on-Thames, its post town.
Hersham Green, in the nucleus of the village, is 3.4 acres (1.4 ha) of open space where regular events take place throughout the summer. Within a few minutes walk of this suburban-urban bulk of Hersham in the east are green fields and meadows alongside the River Mole and footpaths by fields used for mixed farming; in the south of the village is woodland interspersed by Notre Dame School, Feltonfleet School and Walton Firs Scout Camp and bordered by St George's Hill.
Hersham is served by Hersham railway station and Walton-on-Thames railway station with a minimum of 2 trains per hour and differing types of services on the London Waterloo South West Main Line.
Two golf courses are within its bounds, Burhill Golf Club and Hersham Village Golf Club; considerable other land is wooded, used for mixed farming or Esher Rugby Club, much of which is Metropolitan Green Belt.
According to Hersham in Surrey:
Hersham began as a strip of woodland beside the River Mole. It was occupied by pre-historic folk whose flint instruments have been found in large numbers beside the River on Southwood Manor Farm. These date mostly from the mesolithic period. Somewhere around 200 B.C. a huge defensive earthwork was erected on top of St George's Hill (ecclesiastically in Hersham, but in Weybridge post town), probably as a refuge camp against invaders coming up the Thames Valley.
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