 long ditton is a suburban village in surrey, england, on the boundary with the royal borough of kingston upon thames, london, founded as an agricultural village in the medieval period. neighbouring settlements are claygate, chessington, thames ditton, and surbiton, which is its post town. its northernmost part is  south-west of central kingston upon thames, approximately 11.3 miles from charing cross, and  north-east of guildford, the county town of surrey. long ditton occupies a long strand of land, as its name suggests and is briefly bisected by the south western main line and an urbanised motorway standard section of the a3, which is however not accessible directly from the village. instead the old portsmouth road passes by the river thames at the northern end of the village. ==history== thumb|left|st mary's church(in winter, built 1880.) ditton was a saxon settlement in england which, by domesday, was in lay but not ecclesiastical terms split in two, as it remains. this split was between the riverside manor and parish of thames ditton, and the longer, eastern area, long ditton, which is a long rectangle of land extending from developed land by the river thames to ditton hill. in modern layout ditton hill reaches beyond the wide a3 which is joined on it by a spur of the a309 to woodstock lane south partially now in claygate (and in address wholly in esher post town).ecclesiastical parish (an ancient parish in this instance), definition two dittons appears in the domesday book of 1086: ditone and ditune. the one that became known as long ditton was held by picot from (i.e. under) richard fitz gilbert. the one that became known as thames ditton was held by wadard under bishop odo. long ditton's domes
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