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History of Woking. Town Square in Woking before a Glass Extension was added. Woking means" (settlement belonging to the) followers of Wocc (or 'Wocca')". [1] . Over time, the name has been written variously as, for example, Wochingas, and Wokynge . Pre-1800. Prehistoric. The westernmost Bronze Age bell barrow on Horsell Common [2]
The modern town was established in the mid-1860s, as the London Necropolis Company began to sell surplus land surrounding the railway station for development . Modern local government in Woking began with the creation of the Woking Local Board in 1893, which became Woking Urban District Council (UDC) in 1894.
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This site contains articles on Woking’s History and Heritage by Iain Wakeford and the archive of historic documents that were originally featured on the website www.heritagewalks.org. The last walk for 2023 is on Sunday 10th December around Horsell (Canal & Common) (meeting on the bridge over the canal by the WWF Living Planet Centre, GU21 4LL)
Woking History Society noted in their book on Old Woking (Members of the Woking History Society 2014), p4, Glossary, that a hundred was ‘a sub-division of a county established from the 10 th century, and covering about 100 hides. It had military, judicial and administrative functions, and its inhabitants met at a convenient point in each area.
Mar 28, 2020 · 1. Ambassadors Complex. Posing by the waterfall outside the Ambassadors complex (Image: Surrey Advertiser - Grahame Larter) It was not until the 1970s that Woking had its first purpose-built...
- Eleanor Fleming
Archive of Woking History items available to view free of charge such as Directories, Newspapers, Magazines, Programmes, Guides, Deeds and other items of memorabilia relating to Woking & North West Surrey.
As well as writing several books and booklets on Woking's history, I have also contributed numerous articles to local newspapers and magazines. In 1995, I produced a weekly column for the Woking News & Mail (looking back through my own copies of their newspapers) to celebrate the centenary of the publication of the Woking News (in 1895) and its ...
