Elmbridge has 33 public parks among 313 green space sites. Green space covers 5.2% of the area: about 36 m² per resident, or 5.1 football pitches for every 1,000 people. More green space per resident than 60% of areas in England and Wales, where the typical area has 31 m².
Public green space from OS Open Greenspace; golf courses are listed but not counted. Per resident uses Census 2021 population. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. How we calculate this
All house prices in ElmbridgeDitton Common is the largest public park in Elmbridge, at 30.6 hectares. 12 of the 33 public parks have a name.
| Park | Size |
|---|---|
| Ditton Common | 30.6 hectares |
| Hurst Park | 24.5 hectares |
| Claremont Landscape Garden | 20.7 hectares |
| Leg o' Mutton Field | 5 hectares |
| Cigarette Island Park | 2.1 hectares |
| Hare Lane Green | 1.4 hectares |
| The Green | 1.2 hectares |
| Esher Green | 9,007 m² |
| Back Green | 8,528 m² |
| Monument Green | 2,112 m² |
| Hinchley Wood Memorial Garden | 1,998 m² |
| Ashley Park | 1,224 m² |
Playing fields cover the most ground in Elmbridge: 213 hectares. Golf courses are shown but left out of the green space total, because most need a membership.
| Type | Area |
|---|---|
| Playing fields | 213 hectares · 53 sites |
| Other sports facilities | 114 hectares · 38 sites |
| Public parks and gardens | 107 hectares · 33 sites |
| Allotments and community growing spaces | 35.1 hectares · 21 sites |
| Cemeteries | 18.1 hectares · 9 sites |
| Tennis courts | 13.8 hectares · 39 sites |
| Churchyards and religious grounds | 12.7 hectares · 30 sites |
| Play spaces | 4.8 hectares · 68 sites |
| Bowling greens | 2.6 hectares · 12 sites |
| Golf coursesNot counted | 421 hectares · 10 sites |
About average. Elmbridge has 36 m² of green space per resident, against 31 m² in the typical area of England and Wales and 50 m² across Surrey. More green space per resident than 60% of areas in England and Wales.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| ElmbridgeThis area | 36 m² per resident |
| Surrey | 50 m² per resident |
| Typical area in England and Wales | 31 m² per resident |
A full-size football pitch is about 7,140 m². 36 m² for every resident adds up to 5.1 football pitches of parks, playing fields and other public green space for every 1,000 people.
Typical means the middle fifth of areas in England and Wales. The bands split every area we cover into fifths by green space per resident, from Very Low to Very High.
Weybridge has the most green space per resident of the 5 areas of Elmbridge, at about 33 m² per resident. The labels place each area among every area in England and Wales, in fifths from Very Low to Very High.
More quick answers on house prices, sales, areas and green space in Elmbridge.
Price information is from HM Land Registry, location boundaries are from OpenStreetMap, and households and population are from Nomis Census 2021 postcode estimates (21 March 2021). Parks and green space are from OS Open Greenspace. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 7 October 2026 at 03:04 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The Elmbridge dataset covers 6,463 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.