Editing Tolworth (section)

===The Station Estate===
"The Estate that never was": plans for the Station Estate were approved by Surbiton Corporation and [[Surrey County Council]] in January 1940,<ref>Agreement between Tolworth Finance and Land Corporation Limited, The Surbiton Corporation and The County Council of Surrey dated 22 January 1940</ref> comprising 459 houses and 10 shops on four sites, separated by the Kingston Road and the Southern Railway [[Chessington Branch Line]] (which was to be extended to Leatherhead).

As part of the agreement the owners gave up part of the land to form the wider and re-aligned Kingston Road. Dean Court and Drayton Court were constructed in 1959 on part of the "Station Estate" land and the Developer "Lansdowne Court Investments" is acknowledged in the naming of Lansdowne Close.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Lansdowne+Close,+Surbiton,+Greater+London+KT5,+United+Kingdom&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=64.664844,135.263672&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&geocode=Fdv1DwMdyLz7_w&split=0&hq=&hnear=Lansdowne+Close,+Surbiton+KT5,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=17|title=Google Maps|publisher=Google Maps}}</ref> Earlier plans had envisaged six semi detached and one detached house between the Toby Jug and Tolworth Station.<ref>plan attached to conveyance dated May 1954 between the Tolworth Finance and Land Corporation and the Minister of Works</ref>