Esher College

Esher College is a sixth form college located in Thames Ditton, Elmbridge, England.

It has just under 1800 students enrolled, with a catchment drawn from north Surrey and southwest London. Esher College is very close to Thames Ditton railway station on the northern edge of Surrey. It is situated just south of the roundabout of the A309 and B364.

In 2010 Esher College became the first 6th form college in the country to fully support IPv6.

History

Grammar school

It was formerly Esher County Grammar School which was the new site of Surbiton County Grammar, which moved from a site now occupied by the Hollyfield School in 1965.

Sixth form college

It became a sixth form college in 1974. It had 600 pupils in the 1970s, 700 in the 1980s, and 800 in the 1990s.

Former pupils

Esher

Coordinates: 51°22′09″N 0°21′54″W / 51.3691°N 0.365°W / 51.3691; -0.365

Esher ⁱ/ˈiːʃər/ 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 1 mile (1.6 km) 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 (disambiguation)

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

Esher (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

History and boundaries

1950-1974: The Urban Districts of Esher (the civil parishes of Cobham, East Molesey, Esher, Long Ditton, Stoke D'Abernon, Thames Ditton, and West Molesey) and Walton and Weybridge (the civil parishes of Walton-upon-Thames and Weybridge).

1974-1983: The Urban District of Esher.

1983-1997: The Borough of Elmbridge wards of Claygate, Cobham and Downside, Cobham Fairmile, Esher, Hinchley Wood, Long Ditton, Molesey East, Molesey North, Molesey South, Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon, Thames Ditton, and Weston Green, and the Borough of Guildford wards of Clandon and Horsley, Effingham, Lovelace, and Send.

Neighbours

Neighbours with borders of more than 2 miles (3.2 km) were: