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Woking's Story is a permanent museum at The Lightbox which explores the town's fascinating history. This family-friendly space has something for everyone, from a fun children's dressing-up box to the moving stories of local people.
Mar 28, 2020 · Woking is one of the largest town's in Surrey and is known as the landing place for the aliens in H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. The town boasts the country's oldest mosque, the Shah Jahan,...
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Apr 28, 2016 · ‘Woking’s Story’ is our free permanent museum that offers visitors the opportunity to discover the town’s fascinating history covering themes such as the ‘mad, the bad, and the dead’. Have you ever wondered how the town came to be the way it is today? Or what life in Woking used to be like?
Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Norman. Woking appears in written materials which, though created in the 12th century at Peterborough Abbey, formerly known as Medeshamstede, reliably describe earlier events. [3] The earliest of these is the grant by Pope Constantine (708–715) of privileges to a monastery at Wochingas. [4]
- The Lightbox. Next to the Basingstoke Canal, the Lightbox is Woking’s art gallery and local history museum in a modern building that opened in 2007. “Woking’s Story” is the permanent exhibition, chronicling the town in eight displays and dipping into topics like the Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment, the coming of the railway, Brookwood Cemetery, the Tudor Woking Palace and the Shah Jahan Mosque.
- RHS Garden Wisley. One of England’s four Royal Horticultural Society gardens, Wisley is the most popular of them all, receiving around a million visitors a year.
- Horsell Common. In walking distance of Woking town centre, Horsell Common is one of England’s only areas of common land that is both privately owned and open to the public.
- Shah Jahan Mosque. On Oriental Road, the Shah Jahan Mosque became the first purpose-built mosque not just in the UK but all of Northern Europe when it was completed in 1889.
Woking (/ ˈ w oʊ k ɪ ŋ / WOH-king) is a town and borough in northwest Surrey, England, around 23 mi (36 km) from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as Wochinges, and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner.
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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 current programme for 2024 is here - with posters for the walks around Goldsworth Park in September, and Inkerman in December (if you have somewhere that ...
