What is "esher"

Esher is a town in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole.

Esher is an outlying suburb of London, and with Esher Commons at its southern end, the town marks one limit of the Greater London Built-Up Area. 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. 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 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, as their British home, 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.

Esher was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. In the general elections during its 47-year lifetime it was won by three Conservatives successively.

Esher is a town in Surrey, England. It can also mean:

• Esher railway station
• Esher News & Mail
• Esher and Walton (UK Parliament constituency)
• Esher Rugby Football Club, a rugby union club
• Esher Shore, a mountain bike area in Esher, Surrey, England
• Esher Commons, several large wooded areas to the south-west of Esher
• Esher College, a college in Thames Ditton

• Viscount Esher, a Peerage title of Esher, Surrey, England, held by:
  • William Baliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher (1815-1899)
  • Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (1852-1930)
    • Maurice Vyner Brett
  • Oliver Balliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher (1881-1963)
  • Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher (1913-2004)
  • Christopher Brett, 5th Viscount Esher (b. 1936)
• Richard Drake of Esher, Surrey, (Esher, Surrey, 1535 — July 11, 1603)

• Esher Township, Quebec, Canada, until 1960 part of Sheen-Esher-Aberdeen-et-Malakoff, now part of Sheenboro, Quebec
• Esher Report of 1904
• Esher (Myst) from the computer game Myst V: End of Ages