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Coordinates: 51°18′58″N 0°33′40″W / 51.3162, -0.561 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 709 × 599 pixels Full resolution (1275 × 1078 pixel, file size: 253 KB, MIME type: image/png) Surrey outline, showing motorways and urban areas. ...
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The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
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Woking is a large town and local government district with borough status in the west of Surrey in South East England. ...
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The GU postcode area, also known as the Guildford postcode area[1], is a group of postal districts around Aldershot, Alton, Bagshot, Bordon, Camberley, Cranleigh, Farnborough, Farnham, Fleet, Godalming, Guildford, Haslemere, Hindhead, Lightwater, Liphook, Liss, Midhurst, Petersfield, Petworth, Sandhurst, Virginia Water, Windlesham, Woking and Yateley in England. ...
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- See Woking (borough) for the administrative district.
Woking is a large town and civil parish that shares its name with the surrounding local government district, located to the west of Surrey in South East England. It functions as a dormitory town of the London commuter belt and is located 23 miles (37 km) south west of Charing Cross in central London. Woking town itself, excluding the district, has a population of 62,796,[1] and the administrative civil parish, which covers part of the urban area inclusive of Sheerwater and Knaphill, has a population of 30,403. Woking is a large town and local government district with borough status in the west of Surrey in South East England. ...
A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...
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Woking also plays a role in literature: it is the town in which the Martians landed in H. G. Wells science fiction novel The War of the Worlds. It also features in Douglas Adams's The Meaning of Liff, as the word for when you go to the kitchen but forget why. Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...
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History -
Woking's history starts in 673AD. Woking began around this time as a settlement of a Wessex tribe, followers of Wocca. The name has been corrupted and was spelt as Woccingas, Wochinges, Wokynge, Wochynghe at different times. Wokings history starts in 673 AD, when it was a settlement of a Wessex tribe, followers of Wocca. ...
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Woking appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Wochinges. It was held partly by William the Conqueror and partly by Ansgot and Godfrey from Bishop Osbern of Exeter. Its domesday assets were: 3½ hides; 1 church, 2 mills worth 13s 10d, 31 ploughs, 46 acres of meadow, woodland worth 161 hogs. It rendered £24 10s 0d. Also 15s to the sheriff each year.[2] A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...
William I ( 1027 – September 9, 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087. ...
The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in the southwest of England, also known as the West Country. ...
The hide was a variable unit of land area used in medieval England, defined according to its arable yield and taxable potential rather than its exact dimensions. ...
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Modern Woking was formed around the railway station built over 150 years ago at the junction between trains to the south coast, the south-west of England and the necropolis railway to Brookwood Cemetery. This cemetery was developed by the London Necropolis Company as an overflow burial ground for London's dead. Later, Woking was home to the first crematorium in the United Kingdom (St Johns) and the first mosque in the UK (on Oriental Road). The Shahjehan Mosque was commissioned by Shahjehan, Begum of Bhopal (1868-1901), one of the four female Muslim rulers of Bhopal who reigned between 1819 and 1926. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
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The Avenue leading from Brookwood Cemetery World War I Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, within the grounds of Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. ...
Castle Ashby Graveyard Northamptonshire A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. ...
The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852. ...
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Shahjahan Begum Sultan Shahjahan Begum (July 29, 1838 - June 16, 1901) was the ruler of the princely state of Bhopal in central India for two terms: 1844-60, and secondly during 1868-1901. ...
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The state of Bhopal was established in 1724 by the Afghan Sardar Dost Mohammed Khan, who was a commander in the Mughal army posted at Mangalgarh (which now lies to the north of modern Bhopal). ...
Politics The constituency of Woking has historically been a Conservative party safe seat, with the Liberal Democrats the principal opposition in the last two general elections. Its current Member of Parliament is Humfrey Malins, who has a majority of around 6,500. The borough council is currently run by the Conservatives. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 560 KB)Town Square in Woking, Surrey, UK, featuring Christ Church and the War Memorial. ...
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Woking is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ...
A safe seat is a seat in a legislature which is regarded as fully secured by a certain political party with very little chance of an election upset because of the nature of the electorate in the constituency concerned. ...
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Humfrey Jonathon Malins CBE (born 31 July 1945) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Woking. ...
Facilities Woking has a modern shopping centre called The Peacocks and an older shopping area, Wolsey Place.[3] The Peacocks, a large multi-storey shopping centre, was opened in 1992 in Woking. ...
The main area for evening entertainment is around Chertsey Road[4] which contains restaurants serving a number of cuisines and there are also numerous bars and pubs. The Ambassadors cinemas[5] and New Victoria Theatre[5] can be accessed via the top floor of The Peacocks. Cuisine (from French cuisine, cooking; culinary art; kitchen; ultimately from Latin coquere, to cook) is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. ...
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Woking has indoor swimming pools, "Pool in the Park",[6] and a separate leisure centre. Outdoor facilities include a skatepark, tennis courts, five-a-side football pitches, a cricket pitch (during the summer), bowling greens, a crazy golf course, and a children's adventure playground. These leisure facilities are all located within the attractively landscaped Woking Park[7] near to the town centre. Skatepark in Davis, California. ...
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Five-a-side football is a variation of football (soccer) in which each team fields five players (four outfield players and a goalkeeper), rather than the usual eleven. ...
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Miniature golf, also known as mini-golf, crazy golf or Putt-Putt, is a game modelled after the sport of golf. ...
The scene at St Peter's Church, Old Woking is an inspiration for many local artists, as is another local beauty spot at the lock at St John's Lye.[8]
Energy policy - See related article: Energy policy of the United Kingdom
Woking council is one of country's leaders in adopting greener energy technologies. Several combined heat and power stations provide district heating and electricity, and electricity is also provided by a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and solar cells dispersed throughout the borough. These are linked via an innovative private electricity distribution system operating completely off the public power grid. Energy policy of the United Kingdom is a set of official publications and activities directed at the present and future production, transmission and use of various power technologies. ...
Cogeneration (also combined heat and power or CHP) is the use of a heat engine or a power station to simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat. ...
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In order to do this the local government laid new power lines to all locations on the Woking sustainable community energy system (due to Department of Trade and Industry regulations). Should the public power grid fail, central Woking would continue to have an energy supply.[9] A sustainable community energy system is an integrated approach to supplying a local community with its energy requirements from renewable energy or high-efficiency co-generation energy sources. ...
The Department of Trade and Industry is a United Kingdom government department. ...
The cost for providing this is approximately UK£0.01/kWh less than for public electricity. It has been reported that the borough saves UK£974,000 a year in energy costs if the installation costs are ignored.[9] By March 2004 the initiatives had also cut the borough's carbon emissions by 17.24%, and those of the council by 77.4%.[10] The kilowatt-hour (symbol: kW·h) is a unit for measuring energy. ...
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Woking Station Canopy, which was approved by Woking Councillors in March 2004, is being built in 2007. It is equipped with photovoltaic cells to collect sunlight and convert it into energy.[11]
On Friday 23rd March 2007, Prince Charles opened a climate change exhibition in Woking. The exhibition, which is a joint venture by Business in the Community and BCSC and endorsed by the Climate Group, featured display stands with information on issues like recycling, energy use, transport, waste reduction and food sources. He also inspected work on the Albion Square canopy. After the launch, the prince took lunch at Auberge. He then gave a speech to introduce Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, which was being viewed by local business leaders.
Transport
Rail Woking railway station is situated on the Alton Line, Portsmouth Direct Line, South Western Main Line and West of England Main Line. Accordingly, there are frequent trains to and from London Waterloo (via Clapham Junction), a journey taking approximately half an hour. There is also the twice hourly Waterloo/Woking stopping service that calls at many stations between Waterloo and Woking. Woking railway station is a railway station in England, serving the town of Woking, Surrey. ...
The Alton Line is a line of railway stations in the south of England, stretching from Alton to Ash Vale, served by South West Trains passenger services. ...
The Portsmouth Direct Line is a service operated by South West Trains between runs from London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour. ...
The South Western Main Line is the railway line from London Waterloo to Weymouth on the Dorset coast. ...
The West of England Main Line is the British railway line from London Waterloo to Exeter. ...
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Clapham Junction is a railway station located in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...
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In 2007, the Woking Station canopy is being built. It will stretch from the railway station entrance (town side) to Albion House and the development will include landscaping of the area which, along with the canopy, will create a new entrance to the town from the railway station.
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Brookwood Railway Station was constructed to serve the adjacent cemetery and was at one stage served by its own station at London for the funeral trains. ...
Worplesdon railway station is a minor stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line between Woking and Guildford. ...
Road Woking is accessible from M25 motorway, M3 Motorway & the A3. The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ...
In the Republic of Ireland, the M3 motorway is a planned upgrade to part of the N3 road from Dublin to Cavan and the Northwest. ...
The A3 is a trunk road in Southern England, connecting London to Portsmouth. ...
A320, the main access road, passing through the centre of town connects to the M25 junction 11 to Woking's north and to the A3 to its south at Guildford. M3 Motorway Junction 3 connects to woking either via Chobham(B3046) or A322 & A324. The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ...
The A3 is a trunk road in Southern England, connecting London to Portsmouth. ...
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In the Republic of Ireland, the M3 motorway is a planned upgrade to part of the N3 road from Dublin to Cavan and the Northwest. ...
Bus RailAir coach service connects Woking and London Heathrow airport. The service runs approximately every 30 minutes from the railway station main entrace to all airport terminals. Gatwick Airport can be accessed via Guildford railway station or Clapham Junction. There are several RailAir coach services operating between railway stations and London Heathrow Airport. ...
London Heathrow Airport (IATA airport code: LHR, ICAO airport code: EGLL, and often simply Heathrow) is the United Kingdoms busiest and best-connected airport. ...
Gatwick Airport (IATA Airport Code: LGW, ICAO Airport Code: EGKK) is Londons second airport and the second largest airport in the UK after Heathrow. ...
Guildford railway station serves the town of Guildford in Surrey, England. ...
Clapham Junction is a railway station located in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...
The bus services in Woking are mainly operated by Arriva and Stagecoach. The main bus terminal is just outside the station and provides services to Byfleet and West Byfleet, Camberley, Guildford, Kingston, Ripley and Staines. An Arriva train in Denmark Arriva plc is a UK-based international public transport operator and vehicle rental company, headquartered in Sunderland. ...
Map of Byfleet (from OpenStreetMap) Map of Byfleet (from OpenStreetMap) Byfleet is a village and suburb of Woking in Surrey, England. ...
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Kingston upon Thames, part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is an ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned, and is now a lively suburb of London. ...
For other uses of Ripley, see Ripley Ripley is a village in Surrey, which grew on the main A3 road from London to Portsmouth. ...
Staines is a Thames-side town in the Spelthorne borough of Surrey and part of the London Commuter Belt of South East England. ...
The Bustler community transport service operates in and around Woking, serving people with a transportation disadvantage.[12] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
Suburbs Woking has several suburban districts including :- Horsell, Hook Heath, Mount Hermon, Maybury, Goldsworth Park, St Johns, Pyrford, Kingfield, Westfield, Ridgway and Old Woking. The adjacent sub-towns of Knaphill and Sheerwater are often considered outer suburbs of Woking. Old Woking is often cited as a separate village. Horsell in Surrey is a village on the outskirts of Woking, probably best known because of its association with the story The War of the Worlds, written by H. G. Wells. ...
Goldsworth Park is a large housing estate to the north-west of Woking in Surrey, England. ...
Pyrford is a village in Surrey. ...
, The Great Oak Door at St Peters church Old Woking is a former village now considered part of the town of Woking, Surrey, and is located 2. ...
Knaphill is a village in Surrey. ...
, The Great Oak Door at St Peters church Old Woking is a former village now considered part of the town of Woking, Surrey, and is located 2. ...
Sport Football
Woking has a non-League football club, Woking F.C., that competes in the Nationwide Conference (tier 5). The origin of the club's nickname, the "Cards", is disputed. One attractive proposal is that the name was acquired because Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, after whom the smaller of the two shopping centres is named, was staying with King Henry VIII at Woking Palace (the remains of which can be seen near the River Wey at Old Woking) when he heard he had been made a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515. A more prosaic alternative is that the Cards are so named because of the cardinal red in one half of their home strip. It is interesting to note that this colour was chosen because of the town's link to Cardinal Wolsey. Non-league football refers to football in England played at a level below that of the FA Premier League and The Football League. ...
A football team is the collective name given to a number of players who play together in a football game, be it association football (soccer), rugby, Australian football, American football, Gaelic football, or other version of football. ...
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Conference National (currently billed as the Blue Square Premier for sponsorship reasons) [1] is the top division of the Football Conference. ...
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Henry VIII King of England and Ireland by Hans Holbein the Younger His Grace King Henry VIII (28 June 1491–28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ...
Woking Palace is a former royal residence on the outskirts of Woking, near the suburb of Old Woking, Surrey. ...
The River Wey in Surrey is one of the Waterways in the United Kingdom and a tributary of the River Thames. ...
The coat of arms of a Cardinal are indicated by a red galero (wide-brimmed hat) with 15 tassels on each side (the motto and escutcheon are proper to the individual Cardinal). ...
Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici (11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521) was Pope from 1513 to his death. ...
Cardinal is a vivid red, which gets its name from the cassocks worn by Catholic cardinals. ...
Rugby
Woking has a rugby union club[13] that competes in Surrey League 3 (Level 11). A rugby union scrum. ...
Chobham [14] Rugby club won their league in 2006/07 and now play in London 2 South (Level 6) and have over 1200 members. They have recently had Dan Frazier (prop) signed by NEC Harlequins from their Youth Development system.
Hockey
Woking Hockey Club[15] women's first XI compete in the English Hockey League Women's League 1 (tier 2); the men's first XI compete in a regional league. The club has two AstroTurf pitches at a clubhouse based in Goldsworth Park. Woking Hockey Club in Surrey is one of the biggest hockey club sides in the south of England. ...
A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ...
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Goldsworth Park is a large housing estate to the north-west of Woking in Surrey, England. ...
Cricket
Woking also has a number of cricket clubs including Old Woking CC, Woking & Horsell CC, and Westfield CC.
Motor Racing
The McLaren Formula One motor racing team is based near to the town, as is Räikkönen Robertson Racing, begun by Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen. This article is about the racing team, for other McLaren businesses see McLaren Group and McLaren Automotive. ...
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Räikkönen Robertson Racing (otherwise known as Double R) is a motor-racing team, which races in Formula Three. ...
Kimi Matias Räikkönen (pronounced ), born October 17, 1979 in Espoo, Finland, is a Formula One racing car driver for Scuderia Ferrari. ...
Education Infant and junior schools in the area include: Goldsworth Primary School, Knaphill Junior School, Knaphill Lower School, Horsell CofE Aided Junior School, Horsell Village School, The Prins Willem-Alexander school (Dutch private primary school), St Hugh of Lincoln Catholic Primary School, St. Dunstan's Catholic Primary School, Barnsbury Primary and Infant School, The Hermitage Junior School, Sythwood Primary School and The Oaktree School,Beaufort Primary School. The Prins Willem Alexander school is situated in Woking and is a Dutch primary school in England. ...
Secondary schools in the area include:Bishop David Brown School , St. John the Baptist School, St Andrew's School The Winston Churchill School, and Woking High School. The Bishop David Brown School (formerly named Sheerwater Secondary School) is a mixed comprehensive school for children aged 11 to 16 years. ...
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// The school was established in 1967 and is situated within easy reach of Knaphill, Bisley, West End, Brookwood, Pirbright and other surrounding areas. ...
Woking College is located in Old Woking and provides post-16 education. Other colleges situated near to Woking include Brooklands College, Godalming College, Guildford College, St John the Baptist Sixth Form College and The Sixth Form College, Farborough. Woking College is a 6th Form College situated in the town of Woking, Surrey, UK. Woking College is enjoying unprecedented success with high achievement rates, particularly at A level, which puts it in the the top 10% of schools and colleges in the country. ...
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Guildford College of Further and Higher Education in Guildford, Surrey caters for students of age 16+ in full-time and part-time study. ...
There are also private sector schools. There are several private preparatory schools in Woking: Hoe Bridge, St Andrew's, Greenfields and Ripley Court are all mixed, while Halstead School is girls only. There are no private secondary schools in Woking itself, the nearest being Sir William Perkins's School in Chertsey (girls), St George's College, Weybridge (mixed), Guildford High School and Tormead School (both girls, with junior and senior schools), and the Royal Grammar School, Guildford (boys). Sir William Perkinss School is an independent day school for girls aged 11-18 in Chertsey, Surrey. ...
St Georges College, Weybridge is an independent mixed Roman Catholic co-educational day school in Surrey, England - actually based in Addlestone. ...
Guildford High School is an independent school not far from Guildford High Street, on London Road Guildford. ...
Tormead School is an independent day school for girls aged 4 - 18 years old. ...
The Royal Grammar School is a public school in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. ...
Healthcare Woking comes under Surrey PCT (Primary Care Trust), administered and run by NHS. Group of GP's together with Woking Community hospital [16] serves the local resident's primary healthcare needs. Specialist hospitals near by are St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey (for A&E) and Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. Not to be confused with Surry. ...
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly-funded healthcare system of the United Kingdom. ...
Map of Chertsey (from OpenStreetMap) Chertsey Bridge The Old Town Hall Chertsey is a town in Surrey, England, on the River Thames, and its tributary rivers such as the River Bourne. ...
The emergency department (ED), sometimes termed the emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW), accident & emergency (A&E) department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be life-threatening and...
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For Private healthcare needs, Nuffield Hospital[17] mainly serves Woking's local residents. A private hospital is a hospital which is owned by a company and is privatlely funded, through the payment for medical services by patientsm or by insurers. ...
Notable residents
 Sculpture of a Wellsian Martian Tripod. Woking was home to author H.G. Wells, who had the Martians in The War of the Worlds land on Horsell Common, close to the town centre. There is a large sculpture of a (Wellsian) Martian Fighting Machine in the town centre commemorating Woking's fictional destruction. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 1489 KB) Summary A sculpture of a Martian tripod from H. G. Wells War of the Worlds, in Woking, Surrey. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 1489 KB) Summary A sculpture of a Martian tripod from H. G. Wells War of the Worlds, in Woking, Surrey. ...
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H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ...
A Martian is a hypothetical or fictional native inhabitant of the planet Mars. ...
The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel (or novella) which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. ...
Horsell in Surrey is a village on the outskirts of Woking, probably best known because of its association with the story The War of the Worlds, written by H. G. Wells. ...
Martian tripods drawn by Warwick Goble. ...
The English composer Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) lived and died in Woking. John Singer Sargent: Ethel Smyth, 1901 Dame Ethel Mary Smyth [1] (April 23, 1858 - May 8, 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the womens suffrage movement. ...
The Jam are from Woking, and its singer/songwriter Paul Weller (who later, together with Mick Talbot, formed the The Style Council) was born there in 1958. The song A Town Called Malice was written about Woking[citation needed], and Weller's 1995 solo album, Stanley Road, is named after the street in which he was born and lived.[18] This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
Paul Weller (born John William Weller, 25 May 1958, in Stanley Road, Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. ...
Mick Talbot is a keyboardist from England. ...
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Town Called Malice is a song recorded by The Jam from the album The Gift. ...
Stanley Road is an album by Paul Weller, released by Go! Discs in 1995. ...
Other notable people who were born in Woking include: Ian Ogilvy, actor, 1943; Ron Dennis, CEO/Chairman of the McLaren Group, 1947; Liz Lynne, Liberal Democrat politician, 1948; Rick Parfitt, guitarist for Status Quo, 1948; Douglas Pearce, musician behind Death in June, 1956; Sean Lock, comedian, 1963; Susie Dent, a lexicographer and the dictionary expert on Countdown, 1964; and Harry Hill, comedian, 1964. Ian Ogilvy as Simon Templar pictured on a reprint of an early Saint novel published to coincide with the TV series. ...
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The McLaren Group is a group of companies, created by Ron Dennis, focused around the Team McLaren racing team and Formula One constructor. ...
Elizabeth Lynne, known as Liz Lynne, (born 22 January 1948) is a British politician, and has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands region for the Liberal Democrats since her election at the 1999 European election. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
The Politics series Politics Portal This box: A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ...
Rick Parfitt (born 12 October 1948 in Woking, Surrey, England) is best known for being a singer and the rhythm guitarist in the English rock band Status Quo. ...
Status Quo are an English rock band whose music is characterised by a strong boogie line. ...
Douglas P., born Douglas Pearce, is an English musician who records under the name Death in June. ...
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Death In June is the musical brainchild of English folk musician Douglas Pearce, better known as Douglas P. Death In June was originally formed in Britain in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1985 to work on other projects, the group became the work of...
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A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ...
Susie Dent is a British lexicographer born in Woking in the late 1960s. ...
A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary. ...
Countdown is a British game show presented by Des OConnor and Carol Vorderman. ...
DVD cover for Harry Hill - First Class Scamp, released by Avalon Television, 1998 Dr. Matthew Hall (born October 1, 1964), better known as Harry Roy Hill, is a British stand-up comedian who has graduated to being a star of British television by way of a BBC radio series Harry...
A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ...
Trivia - There is also a Hawker Hunter jet fighter painted silver and mounted on a pole roughly ten metres tall outside the Big Apple family entertainment complex. This was used to promote the previous Planets family entertainment complex, designed to look like a space craft, and has never been removed. However, originally the craft was black with various logos and livery on it. These were removed when the Planets complex was taken over. The Hawker Hunter was a British jet fighter aircraft of the 1950s and 1960s. ...
- Douglas Adams defines in The Deeper Meaning of Liff woking (ptcbl. vb.) as: Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...
The Meaning of Liff (ISBN 0517553473) is a humorous dictionary written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in Britain in 1983. ...
Emergency services Woking is served by these emergency sevices: Surrey Police is the Home Office police force the county of Surrey in the south of England The force is lead by Chief Constable Bob Quick and has its headquarters at Mount Browne, Guildford, Surrey. ...
As of 1st July the NHS Ambulance Services Trusts of Kent, Surrey and Sussex are being joined together to form a new South East Coast Ambulance Service . ...
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly-funded healthcare system of the United Kingdom. ...
Surrey Ambulance Service is the ambulance service for the County of Surrey, England. ...
Sussex is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. ...
The Kent coat of arms For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ...
Is the local Emergency Fire & Rescue service for the County of Surrey, England. ...
See also Horsell in Surrey is a village on the outskirts of Woking, probably best known because of its association with the story The War of the Worlds, written by H. G. Wells. ...
Goldsworth Park is a large housing estate to the north-west of Woking in Surrey, England. ...
Knaphill is a village in Surrey. ...
For Government policy, see Energy policy of the United Kingdom Energy use and conservation in the United Kingdom has been receiving increased attention over recent years. ...
Notes - ^ Surrey Country Council census data
- ^ Surrey Domesday Book
- ^ Wolsey Place web site
- ^ Map showing Chertsey Road
- ^ a b Web site for the Ambassadors cinemas and New Victoria Theatre
- ^ Pool in the Park web site
- ^ Woking Park web site
- ^ (a) (b) Two sites on David Drury, a local artist
- ^ a b Brown, Paul. "Woking shines in providing renewable energy", The Guardian, 2004-01-26.
- ^ London Climate Change Authority Press Release
- ^ Woking government news Final stage of the canopy to Albion Way
- ^ Woking Bustler web site
- ^ Woking RFC
- ^ Chobham Rugby
- ^ Woking Hockey Club
- ^ List of GP's & Woking Community hospital
- ^ Nuffield Hospitals, Woking Community hospital
- ^ Map with Stanley Road indicated
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Further reading - Guardian article: Woking to teach London to be a world leader in tackling climate change
External links - Woking Borough Council
- Window on Woking: community organisations and Councillors' sites
- Aerial photographs of Woking
- Woking, Alberta, Canada
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