At the 2011 census, Tadworth (and Walton-on-the-Hill) had a population of 7,123[2] On a small farm to the north-west, South Tadworth Farm, directly at the top of the westward-facing Langley Vale and south of the Epsom Downs Racecourse, is an Iron Age Banjo enclosure,[3] a term used by archaeologists for a distinctive type of prehistoric settlement.

[3] There are three more rectangular enclosures, which may be mentioned here as being connected in all probability with the settlement of which this villa was part, though they are actually over the border of Banstead parish.

rent in North Tadworth and Little Bookham to the Priory of St Mary Overy — they held until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

[4] However, in 1524 they gave it with the rectory of Banstead to William Coltson and Richard Moys and Elizabeth his wife for a term of forty years, which was widened to complete ownership in effect by Henry VIII.

From the Crown to Thomas Walson and Robert Moys, eventually the manor was given up to the latter entirely and stayed in his family until his grandson Henry who held court in 1648.

[6] In 1631–32 Thomas Grymes acquired it leaving it to his son who became Sir George Grymes; in the English Civil War Robert Wilson acquired and conveyed it to Leonard Wessel [sic] in 1694, who held the manor for ten years during which time he rebuilt in into today's Grade I listed Queen Anne building, children's home and charity headquarters, Tadworth Court.

[4] The British Transport Police's training headquarters was located at a site between Tadworth and Walton-on-the-Hill until it was closed in 2010.

[citation needed] Neighbouring settlements include Walton-on-the-Hill, Kingswood, Epsom, Burgh Heath, Banstead, Reigate.

Tadworth lay within the Copthorne hundred, an administrative division devised by the Saxons and later adopted by the Normans.

[9][10] The Tattenham Corner Branch Line forms a deep, curved cutting running past gardens in the centre of the village as it turns to the racecourse to the north, and arrives from a tunnel immediately south of the Tadworth Roundabout preserving the gently wooded heath there.

[11] Tadworth is roughly rectangular and is under a mile broad as it has historically been taken to include Banstead Heath to the south, on which it was placed.

[10] Its geology is that of the North Downs (see Surrey – Geology); as to soil, Chipstead, Banstead and Tadworth have the first free-draining, slightly acid loamy soil that tops the wider downs to Guildford and is found around Dorking; it is seen further along the Hog's Back along its northern side as well in Surrey.

Tadworth Court is a grand Grade I listed building and was built at the height of Queen Anne style architecture in the very early 18th century — namely here in 1700 for Leonard Wessels, Lord of the Manor of Banstead.

[citation needed] Tadworth Cricket Club is situated opposite the Duke's Head Pub, on the south-east side of the B2032.

The new pavilion was opened by Alf Gover (formerly of Surrey CCC and England) during Tadworth Village week in 1993.

There is another towards the south of the area, nearer to Walton Heath, and a third, known locally as Shelvers Hill, to the north, near to Epsom Downs.

Services include one bank, a post office, a medical centre, a dentist, an optician, tyre specialist and a vet's surgery.

There are three public houses situated to the south-east of the village centre, along the B2032 Dorking Road, these being the Blue Anchor, the Duke's Head and Inn on the Green.

[citation needed] International film actress Betty Stockfeld died in Tadworth on 27 January 1966.

[20] The wood-lined Brighton Road (A217) marks the eastern boundary of Tadworth as a dual carriageway with direct access to Junction 8 (Reigate Hill) of the M25 London Orbital Motorway.

Route 420 runs from Sutton through Banstead, Tadworth following the A217 through Reigate and terminates at Whitebushes, with a few services extended to Gatwick Airport.