Walton North & Molesey Heath

Walton North & Molesey Heath is a local ward in Elmbridge, centred on residential streets, small commercial parades and community facilities. The area includes a mix of housing types, primary schools, and local clubs, with short stretches of shops serving day-to-day needs. Road patterns and footpaths reflect incremental growth over the 20th century, and council services are organised at the borough level. Movement within the ward tends to be by short car journeys, cycling or on foot; public green spaces and allotments break the built areas and provide places for neighbourhood events and play.

Molesey Heath occupies the southern part of the ward and is a patchwork of open grassland, scrub and a string of shallow ponds left where gravel was once worked. Paths run between allotments and meadow, and the water fringes attract noticeable flocks of wintering wildfowl and waders at certain times of year. The heath links directly to adjacent residential streets, so the transition from garden to open land is often only a short walk, and local volunteer groups help manage scrub and paths for walkers and wildlife.