Halloween in Elmbridge 2026: pumpkin picking from £6.50

Elmbridge is a borough of separate towns and villages along the Thames and the Mole, and nobody gives it as an address. They say Esher, Weybridge, Walton-on-Thames, Cobham, Hersham, Claygate, Oxshott, Thames Ditton or East and West Molesey, the last of these sitting across the river from Hampton Court.

They do share Elmbridge Borough Council, which decides planning, bins, car parks and licensing for all of them, and Surrey County Council, which runs the roads and the schools. Both publish the evidence behind those decisions where hardly anybody reads it. We read it and write down what it says, with a link to the source on every fact, and we say which of the two is responsible each time.

Two minutes here

• House prices: the borough average is £750,157, but Oxshott’s median is £1,342,500 and Walton-on-Thames sits at £505,000. Land Registry sold prices for thirteen places.
• Trains to London: 22 minutes from Walton, 45 from Cobham, and season tickets from £2,492 to £3,536. Only two stations here take contactless.
• Planning news: the council can show one year of housing land where it needs five, its Local Plan runs out this year, and the council itself goes in April 2027.
• Roadworks and parking: what is shut at Painshill and Fairmile Lane, and how to claim back one of the 9,000 parking fines issued in error.
• Things to do: verified 2026 prices for Painshill, Claremont, Brooklands and Sandown, and what the VAT cut ending on 1 September does to them.

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