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Esher is a Town in the Surrey borough of Elmbridge in South East England near the River Mole . It is a suburban development situated 14.1 miles (22.7 km) south west of Charing Cross . The name of the town is pronounced /iːʃə/ (not /ɛʃə/). Larger towns nearby are Hersham and Walton-on-Thames ; whilst smaller settlements are Claygate , Cobham , Hinchley Wood , Long Ditton , Oxshott and Thames Ditton . Esher has a Railway Station which connects the town, via railway, to London Waterloo . The town lies on the A307, Portsmouth Road . HISTORY Esher lay within the Saxon administrative district of Elmbridge Hundred . Esher appears in s 6 Plough s, 2 acres of Meadow . It rendered £6 2s 0d. Surrey Domesday Book It grew as a stagecoach stop on the London–Portsmouth Road that was later designated as the A3 Road , although it was Bypassed in the mid-1970s. which is in the town]] In the Sixteenth Century , Henry VIII Of England commandeered the area as a royal hunting ground, and the town remained wealthy. Clive Of India built the Claremont Mansion , and this later became a royal residence used by Queen Victoria . Prince Leopold Of Saxe-Coburg lived there until he became King of the Belgians . Queen Victoria lent the house to the exiled French King Louis-Philippe and his consort Queen Marie-Amelie after the Revolution of 1848 . George Harrison of the Beatles had a house (called Kinfauns ) in Esher, during the 1960s. The other Beatles were regular visitors to the house, and Harrison's primitive home Recording Studio . Sandown Park Racecourse lies in the town near to its Station (served by the Waterloo Via Weybridge Service ). The town itself is now primarily a Dormitory Town for Commuter s to London . The local newspaper is the Esher News and Mail STATUS IN THE MEDIA Esher has been presented in some parts of the media as a particularly ordinary part of suburbia. Monty Python referred to Esher at least three times. In Episode 9 of '' Monty Python's Flying Circus '', a troupe member dressed as an 'African Native' (inappropriately by today's standards) said: 'Full frontal nudity? Not in this part of Esher.' Then in Episode 31, a tourist played by Eric Idle complaining about Package Holiday s ranted about 'middle-class stockbrokers' wives busily buying identical holiday villas in suburban development plots just like Esher, in case the Labour government gets in again…' Furthermore in Episode 36, a character played by 's character responded: 'A party?!' To which Palin responded: 'No, an orgy. We live in Esher.' The theme was taken up again in '' - somewhere like that.' Esher was often referred to in The Good Life by Margo Leadbetter as both a place to aspire to after Surbiton and somewhere where behaviour was more lax. The Sitcom On The Up starring Dennis Waterman was set in Esher. In the '' Doctor Who '' episode 'Black Orchid', several characters believe Nyssa's home planet of Traken to be near Esher. One character states that Nyssa's lack of knowledge of Esher shows good taste. SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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