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13 Facts About Woking

1.

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

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2.

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

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3.

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

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4.

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

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5.

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 was being shipped to London from a new wharf at Cartbridge near Send.

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6.

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

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7.

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

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8.

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

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9.

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

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10.

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

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11.

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

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12.

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.

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13.

Briarbrae, the Woking 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".

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