19 Facts About Woking Surrey

The settlement expanded northwards during the interwar period and Old Woking Surrey is contiguous with the main urban area of the borough.

Woking Surrey was held by the Crown until 1200, when King John granted it to Alan Basset.

On her death in 1509, Woking Surrey was inherited by her grandson, the future Henry VIII.

When poor law unions were established following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, the parish of Woking Surrey was included in the Guildford Poor Law Union, whilst the parishes of Byfleet, Horsell, and Pyrford were included in the Chertsey Poor Law Union.

In 1893 a separate local board was established for the parish of Woking Surrey, making it its own urban sanitary district, independent from the Guildford Rural Sanitary District.

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The opening of the new navigation had a modest effect on the local area and, by the 18th century, flour produced by watermills at Woking Surrey was being shipped to London from a new wharf at Cartbridge near Send.

The track through Woking Surrey station was quadrupled in 1904 and electrified in 1937.

Woking Surrey ran funeral trains to Brookwood at least twice a week until April 1941, when the London terminus was bombed.

Woking Surrey decided to develop the area itself and divided it into plots for large, detached houses.

Woking Surrey was acquired by its competitors, P B Cow Ltd, in 1948.

Town is in the parliamentary constituency of Woking Surrey and has been represented at Westminster since May 2010 by Conservative Jonathan Lord.

Woking Surrey is twinned with: Amstelveen, Netherlands ; Le Plessis-Robinson, France ; Rastatt, Germany .

The Italian population in Woking Surrey, including second- and third-generation members, numbers between two and three thousand.

Woking Surrey has a significant cluster of companies operating in the oil and gas industries, financial and business services industry, as well as the environmental technologies sector.

In October 1895, the brigade in Woking Surrey was formed and was initially equipped with a hand cart, ladders and leather hoses.

In 2022, the fire authority for Woking is Surrey County Council and the statutory fire service is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service.

At end of the 19th century, a police sergeant and two constables were working in Woking Surrey and there was a second sergeant at Knaphill.

However, Woking is poorly connected by road to local towns in northwest Surrey and there are only two north–south routes for road vehicles across the London to Southampton railway line in the town centre, both of which suffer from congestion at peak times.

Briarbrae, the Woking Surrey home of a Foreign Office employee, Mr Percy Phelps, is a key setting in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty".