Hersham

Template:Infobox England place Hersham is a village in Surrey, England although with a population of 20,000 it is larger than most other towns in Surrey.

The Village

Hersham has a growing population and people from Hersham are proud of their "village"!

Hersham is where town meets country, a fine local shopping centre overlooks Hersham Green, Three and a half acres of open space where regular events take place throughout the summer months. Within a few minutes walk of the built-up area of Hersham are green fields and meadows alongside the River Mole and open countryside.

House prices vary from small bedsits at £139,000 to popstar mansions at £10 million.

Many stars use the Hersham Village Golf Club where Singer Kenny Lynch is the president.

Despite the low number of residents, the village still has it's own recognised language and is widely regarded as a mix of German, Dutch, Cockney Rhyming Slang and Mandarin Chinese. Elmbridge Council has in fact considered teaching the language in it's primary schools due to the work of an anonymous 'Ershamish pressure group.

Famous People Past and Presant

• Mick Hucknall
• Max Clifford
• Caprice
• Bobby Davro
• Julie Andrews, lived and spent her childhood in Hersham.
• President Hoover, also lived in Hersham before he returned to America to become President.
• Gordon Mills, Tom Jones's Manager lived here and is buried in Burvale Cemetry as is Entertainer Tommy Trinder.

Village Claims to Fame

The "pop" group Sham69 has its home roots in Hersham.

Queen Victoria wrote in her diary how she saw her first steam train in Hersham when she was a young girl.

King George III visited Weylands farm in Hersham where the first Drill Plough was evented and he saw demonstration.

Richard Thomas Gibbon McClaren 'Ersham Price half lived there. He was married to a man named Clare Cullen for 13 years, before moving to France, even though the only language he knew was Hershamish. He didn't speak a word of French. In his memoirs, "My Life and My Man", he noted all his experiences of his time spent in Hersham.

Hersham is frequently a location filming for film and television productions including Nighty Night, The Glass, Monty Python and Being April.

Site of the Famous Battle for Hersham (or 'Skurm-furkell Ershta wode nide' in local dialect) of 1675, in which the local peasants fought for autonomy of the East fields of the village, and the nobles defended the village centre and West forest. A memorial stands erect beside the village green remembering those killed in this epic battle.

Another popular trait extracted from Old 'Ershamish, is the manner of speech. The use of the side of the mouth when conversing was common in all inhabitants. This helps the correct pronunciation of the word Hersham, to become more auded as "Eeersham".

Transport

Rail

It is served by Hersham Station and Walton-on-Thames Station both on the main London Waterloo Southwest line.

Road

To the south of the village is the A3 and M25

Local Area

RHS Garden, Wisley is close by, it is one of the three most visited paid gardens in the United Kingdom alongside Kew Gardens and Alnwick Garden. It is one of four public gardens run by the Society.

Hersham is surrounded by the towns of Cobham, Esher, Weybridge and Walton-on-Thames.