Hersham is a village/town in Surrey, fifteen miles from the centre of London and within the M25 boundary. It has an adult population of around 12,000 happy souls.

Within a few minutes walk of the Hersham shopping centre there are green open fields where sheep graze and where residents can spend their time sitting or walking beside the river Mole which forms a boundary between Hersham and Esher and Hersham and Cobham.

Although often thought of as being in Cobham, Painshill Park lies within the Hersham boundaries as does two thirds of St. Georges Hill which has a Weybridge postal address.

Hersham is serviced by two railway stations, Hersham which is on the Molesey Road and is within a mile of the town centre and Walton (previously known as Hersham and Walton before Hersham station was built in 1936) which is situated even closer to the Hersham centre.

Both stations are on the main Waterloo/Southwest lines and you can catch a train either to the city and its various links all over the country or to the west country (Devon/Cornwall) or Portsmouth line and the Alton/Farnham line via Woking.

Hersham is served by a number of local bus routes although there is no longer an evening service, the route 555 does serve Hersham on a Sunday and you can catch this to take you/from Heathrow airport.

The local Rydens Senior School is also served by local buses which take children to Molesey, Esher, Walton and Weybridge.

Several Hersham children also attend schools in Chertsey, Weybridge and Esher as well as a few in Kingston-upon-Thames.

Hersham has along and fasinating history much of it involving Royalty from Henry 8th who enclosed all of Hersham and made it his hunting park and Queen Victoria who often used to visit the town and wrote in her diary that she saw her first ever train while travelling through Hersham.

American "Royalty" is also involved because President Hoover lived in Hersham while staying in England in his younger days. He lived in the White House in West Grove.

Having no church Hersham was for many years part of the parish of Walton-on-Thames but become a parish and entity in its own right in 1839 with the railway line being declared as the boundary between the two places.

This was slightly changed when Oatlands was granted parish statious and the north of the Queens Road between Sir. Richards Bridge and Hains Bridge become part of the parish of Oatlands.

The actual parish of Hersham stretches for some even miles in length and three and a half miles in width. The boundaries are the river Mole to the east from the railway line down to beyond Painshill Park, across the A3 to within a few feet of the M25 by Chatley Tower to Redhill Road, alonmg Redhill Road across St.Georges Hill to Cavendish Road hence to St. Georges Avenue to Queens Road and Hains Bridge and the railway line which forms the northern boundary with the exception mentioned above.