Esher Urban District was an

urban district Urban district may refer to: * District * Urban area * Quarter (urban subdivision) * Neighbourhood Specific subdivisions in some countries: * Urban districts of Denmark * Urban districts of Germany * Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...

in Surrey, England created by merging two urban districts and adding two parishes to the south-west. It existed from 1933 to 1974 and was governed by the elected Esher Urban District Council which shared local government functions with

Surrey County Council Surrey County Council is the county council administering certain services in the non-metropolitan county of Surrey in England. The council is composed of 81 elected councillors, and in all but one election since 1965 the Conservative Party has ...

. Its main building was the large town hall in

Esher Esher ( ) is a town in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole. Esher is an outlying suburb of London near the London-Surrey Border, and with Esher Commons at its southern end, the town marks one limit of the Greater London Built-Up ...

Creation

It was created following the

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as part of a county review order from: * East and West Molesey Urban District * Esher and the Dittons Urban District *From

Epsom Rural District Epsom was a rural district of Surrey from 1894 to 1933. It was created in 1894 and covered the area of the formed Epsom Rural Sanitary District – i.e. the parishes of Ashtead, Banstead, Cheam, Chessington, Cobham, Cuddington, Ewell, Fetcham ...

the civil parishes of Cobham and Stoke d'Abernon *Very small parts of Surbiton Urban District (15 acres) and Walton and Weybridge Urban District (3 acres) The district had eight wards, electing 33 councillors to Esher Urban District Council.

Abolition

The district was within the Metropolitan Police District and part of the review area of the

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. It was proposed by the commission that Esher should form, with Walton and Weybridge, a borough in Greater London. However, neither district went on to be included in Greater London as created by the London Government Act 1963. In 1970 there was an exchange of

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island territory with the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in Greater London when Thames Ditton Island was transferred from Richmond upon Thames and

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was transferred the other way. Both islands were previously connected to the river bank by bridges on the opposite side of the river to their respective counties. The urban district was abolished on 1 April 1974 and became, with Walton and Weybridge, Elmbridge.

References

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