Weston Green
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 The narrow western section of Weston Green has the main through route and the retail/dining/entertainment roads of the village. The local council offset the A309 road with daffodils in spring time. |
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| Weston Green shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 1.5 km2 (0.58 sq mi) |
| Population | 3,876 (2011 census) |
| • Density | 2,584/km2 (6,690/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TQ1566 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Thames Ditton Esher |
| Postcode district | KT7, KT10 |
| Dialling code |
020 01372 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
Weston Green is a small suburban village and a ward in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey. This area was, until 1901, a part of Thames Ditton with which it remains contiguous and associated however it is also contiguous with Esher and about half of it is in that post town and closer to its railway station. The village forms a rough triangle of land along the west side of the midsection of the Hampton Court Branch Line next to Thames Ditton railway station and down to Esher railway station (which is on the South Western Main Line), with the split between the two being the part dual-carriageway, the A309. A green which faces this is not the main part of the Green but has four pubs or restaurants and the parish church.
The name is derived from Westun, a farm which related to lane in the west of Thames Ditton.
Weston Green appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Westone held by Barking Abbey (a nunnery). Its domesday assets were: 3 ploughs. It rendered £2 per year to its feudal system overlords.
The village occupies part of the lands of two manors of medieval Thames Ditton:
According to the Chancery Rolls of 1212, King John was entertained at a residence of some size in Ditton belonging to Geoffrey Fitz Pierre, the Chief Justice, during a royal journey from Chertsey to London. It was likely the house of one of these two manors.
A curious reminder of the ancient lordship of Weston is given by a notice board, which used to stand on the common, headed 'Manor of Weston otherwise Barking'. The alternative name of Barking Manor appears in surveys before the 20th century of Imber Court.
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