Woking
Woking is a Town in the county of Surrey.
There are great places to visit near Woking.
Woking History
There are some historic monuments around Woking:
Areas of Woking
Like most towns and cities Woking is comprised of a number of areas, once separate villages or small towns and parishes now part of Woking.
Many of the areas of Woking have their own character and places of interest.
History of Woking
Modern Woking was formed in the area to the south of the Basingstoke Canal (opened in 1794) around the railway station, built in 1838 at the junction between lines to London, the south coast, and the south-west of England, and the private railway to Brookwood Cemetery, which was developed by the London Necropolis Company as an overflow burial ground for London’s dead. As a result, the original settlement 1Â mile to the south-east, on the River Wey, became known as “Old Woking”. Later, Woking Crematorium at St John’s became the first crematorium in the United Kingdom.
