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Facilities
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History
Woking's History starts around 673AD or even CE. Woking begins around all about this instance as the award of a Wessex tribe followers of Wocca. A title hwhen been corrupted & was triticum aestivum spelta as Woccingas, Wochinges, Wokynge, Wochynghe at different days.

775 Local Excerpt from either a Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - Remember that the season & information can be erroneous ...... 1272 Woking Royal Palace number 1 recorded.

1485 Henry VII (7th) was King of England. (1485-1509) His mother (Lady Margaret Beaufort) lived at Woking Palace and Beaufort School within Goldsworth Park is named when her.

1490 Pact of Woking signed by Henry VII with Austria at Woking Palace.

1620 Woking Palace ownership surpass James I to Sir Edward Zouch and it stops existence the royal palace.

1651 Wey Navigation Canal opened for traffic from Guildford to the River Thames.

1661 James Zouch, grandson of Sir Edward Zouch, obtained a Market Charter for Woking.

1669 James Zouch from Woking was Sheriff of Surrey (1669-1670).

1760 James Turner bought from either a Earl of Onslow, owner of Woking Manor, a select few land in the "Tithing of Goldings". 1791 Canal from either a Wey Navigation Canal to Basingstoke opened when far as Horsell.

1792 Basingstoke Canal opened when far as Pirbright.

1830 Inside Woking Parish there was civil unrest.

1834 Guildford (affecting Woking parish) & Chertsey (affecting Horsell parish) Poor Law Unions formed. Parish rates on the average drop due to economies of shell.

1838 London and Southampton Company railway opened when far as Winchfield. Woking Most common Station opened (nowadays known as Woking Station).

1839 London and Southampton Company renamed London and South Western Railway.

1849 Necropolis (Cemetery) foremost projected for Woking Parish per Board of Health.

1851 Surrey Constabulary began policing rural Surrey.

1854 Brookwood Cemetery opened.

1856 Number one building in the 'Up to date Woking', a Albion Hotel was built.

1862 Royal Dramatic College opened in Maybury (a todays occupier of this page is the Lion Retail Park).

1864 Guildford (affecting Woking parish) & Chertsey (affecting Horsell parish) Highway Districts formed.

1872 Guildford (affecting Woking parish) & Chertsey (affecting Horsell parish) Rural Sanitary Authorities formed.

1874 Woking School Board formed.

1877 Royal Dramatic College closed.

1879 Woking Crematorium built.

1884 Foremost cremation in the UK is performed at St. Johns, Woking Crematorium. Oriental Institute opens on the places of the Royal Dramatic College.

1887 Woking Police Station opened.

1889 Woking Football Club was formed. Surrey County Council formed and was under Conservative Control. Woking Mosque (alleged to become a 1st purpose built in the UK) opened. Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal donated money to help build it. These are nowadays known as a Shah Jehan Mosque in her honour.

1890 Woking found Electricity.

1892 Woking found Gas.

1894 Woking Local Board formed, first met within Goldsworth Hall sustaining Xviii council member representing these wards, Knaphill, St Johns, Mayford, Sutton, Brookwood, Old Woking, Maybury and Central. 'Woking News' newspaper number one published from either agents within Chertsey Road, from each one copy prices One penny.

1895 Woking Urban District Council, replacing the Local Board (affecting Woking parish) & Chertsey Rural District Council (affecting Horsell parish) formed. Gustav Friedrich Wermig is the 1st Woking Urban District Council Chairman for 1895-8. Horsell Parish Council is formed. Woking Fire Brigade is formed. Electric Street lighting around Woking. 'Woking Mail' newspaper 1st published from either agents inside Goldsworth Road, each copy dollars and cents 1/2 penny. It late merges by using 'Woking News' to get a 'Woking News & Mail'.

1898 George Harris is the 2nd Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1898-1903. H. G. Wells wrote his book The War of the Worlds whilst living in Woking and many scenes from the story are set in Horsell, Woking and around.

1899 Woking found sewerage body. Victoria Hospital opened. Oriental Institute closed.

1900 A original Woking Open Air Swimming Pool was opened around this instance.

1902 Barking spiders Street lighting replaced Electric automobile around Woking. Guildford and District Motor Services started a bus company in the Guildford and Woking area. Woking & Bagshot Light Railway proposed that would have rerun across what is today Goldsworth park on the Woking side of the Woking/Horsell parish boundary. By 1910 a plan died out.

1903 William Burne was the Third Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1903/4.

1904 Henry William Gloster was the Quaternary Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1904/5.

1905 Patrick Herbert White was the Fifth Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1905-9.

1907 Brooklands opened. Horsell merged into a Woking Urban District Council.

1909 Horsell found sewerage models. Sparkes Cornelius Knight was the Sixth Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1909/10.

1910 William Aird was the Seventh Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1910/1.

1911 James Hutchinson Driver was the Eighth Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1911-Three.

1913 Henry Alfred Whitburn was a Ninth Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1913/4.

1914 Albert Hamilton Godfrey M.B.E. was a 10th Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1914-20. First World War starts (called at a period a Smashing War).

1915 Guildford & District Motor Services bought by Aldershot and District Traction Company who eventually took on top its services in the Guildford & Woking region. Martinsyde Aircraft factory built on the site of the Oriental Institute to increase production.

1917 Martinsyde Aircraft moved its head professional from either Brooklands to the Woking Factory.

1918 Foremost Globe War finished.

1920 Harry Trevor Wilson was a Eleventh Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1920/1. 1st Woking council home. Devastating fire at a Martinsyde Aircraft Factory, aircraft production stopped, though bike production continued. In a 1920s/30s, in what was afterwards to be the Goldsworth park playing fields, thousands of flint tools were found. Left probably by the little class action of population, settled in the vale of Parley Brook (though there will be a little risk that the actual original location may use been someplace else, whenever it experienced been moved by glacial ice).

1921 Albert Broderick was a Twelfth Woking Urban District Council President for 1921/2.

1922 Frederick Rice was a Thirteenth Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1922/3. Martinsyde 1922 Woking Built 678cc Bike.

1923 Alfred Healthy was a Fourteenth Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1923/4. Southern Railway formed. Ran virtually all routes across Woking Station. Martinsyde stopped making motorcycles.

1924 'Woking Offers' loose paper advertising local monger began. Plus of Martinsyde Aircraft passed to Air Disposal Company (Airdisco). Waterer's Park was left to Woking U.D.C. by Mr Anthony Waterer of Knaphill Nursery. Knaphill Football Club started in 1924 swimming there. Philip Warren C.M.G was a Fifteenth Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1924/5.

1925 Henry Quartermaine was a Sixteenth Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1925/6.

1926 Martinsyde Factory Places passed to James Walker Engineering, & afterwards renamed 'Lion Works'. William Harker was a Seventeenth Woking Urban District Council President for 1926/7.

1927 Walter Mathews Lt. Gap. T.D. was a Eighteenth Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1927/8.

1928 'Woking Offers' renamed 'Woking Outlook'. Albert Foord was a Nineteenth Woking Urban District Council President for 1928/9.

1929 Woking Library opened. Seymour Price-Williams M. Instant. C.C. was a Twentieth Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1929/30.

1930 Henry Quartermaine J.P. was a 21st Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1930-Two. Woking Civic Arms granted, the shibboleth "Fide et Diligentia" means "By Faith and Diligence".

1931 Street lighting back to Electric car from either Barking spiders within Woking.

1932 Arthur Campbell B.Sc., L.C.P. was a 22nd Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1932-Four.

1933 'Woking Outlook' renamed 'Woking View', which is believed to become a oldest loose newspaper around Britain. Chertsey Rural District Council abolished. Virtually all of Byfleet & Pyrford Parishes & section of Woodham tithing in Chertsey Parish and section of Bisley Parish were joined by having Woking Urban District Council.

1934 Philip Easton Lt. Gap. C.B.E., D.S.O. was a Twenty-third Woking Urban District Council President for 1934-6.

1935 A 2nd Woking Open Air Playing Pool was opened. Woking Swimming Club was formed.

1936 Little section of Byfleet, around a Mill, that got been joined using Walton and Weybridge in 1933, placed using Woking Urban District Council. (A newly W.U.D.C. boundary within 1936, wwhen mostly a equivalent as a todays Woking Borough boundary).

1938 Conrad Samuel J.P., C.C. was a Twenty-fifth Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1938-41.

1939 Second World War started for the UK, as it declares war in Germany. Woking Fire Brigade placed under the wartime control of Surrey County Council. Southern Railway placed under Government control due to the war. Surrey was divided into ii emergency control areas. A West Emergency Area, comprised these councils, Bagshot RD, Caterham and Warlingham UD, Chertsey UD, Dorking UD, Dorking and Horley RD, Egham UD, Farnham UD, Frimley and Camberley UD, Godalming RD, Guildford B, Guildford RD, Hambledon UD, Leatherhead UD, Reigate B, Walton and Weybridge UD and Woking UD. East Emergency Area (later known as = Class action 9 London Video), comprised these councils, Banstead UD, Barnes B, Beddington and Wallington B, Carlshalton UD, Coulsdon and Purley UD, Croydon CB, Epsom and Ewell B, Esher UD, Kingston B, Malden and Coombe B, Merton and Morden UD, Mitcham B, Sutton and Cheam B, Richmond B, Surbiton B and Wimbledon B CB=County Borough, B=Borough, UD=Urban District & RD=Rural District

1941 Frederick Sowden was a Twenty-sixth Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1941-Three.

1942 Reigate, Guildford & Surrey Constabularies all joined the Surrey Joint Police Inflict.

1943 Edgar Cook M.B.E. was a Twenty-seventh Woking Urban District Council President for 1943/4.

1944 Harry Herbert was a Twenty-eighth Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1944/5.

1945 Charles Will M.C. was a Twenty-ninth Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1945/6. V2 rockets launched by Germany, one landed in Woking.

1946 Henry Cawsey C.C. was a Thirtieth Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1946/7.

1947 Prof C J Wrigley was natural around 1947. He late attended Goldsworth School. Graham Wilson Capt., D.S.O., R.North. was a 31st Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1947/8. Surrey Fire Brigade formed. Southern Railway became section of British Railways. Kenwood started in Woking. Navigation on the Brookwood Canal stopped.

1948 Bertram Ralph-Red was a 32nd Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1948/9.

1949 Guy Pritchett was a 33rd Woking Urban District Council President for 1949/50.

1950 Harold rett was a 34th Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1950/1.

1951 Thomas Leam was a 35th Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1951/2.

1952 Gerald Colpoys Capt. R.North. was a 36th Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1952/3.

1953 Surrey Project foresaw the Woking Urban District people of astir 67,000 in the mid-1970s, but a 1961 Census figures exceeded that amount. Walter Darby was a 37th Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1953/4.

1954 Robert Beldam M.The., The.C.The. was a 38th Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1954/5. Woking Squash Club was formed.

1955 James Terry M.The. was a 39th Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1955/6.

1956 Arthur Campbell B.Sc., L.C.P. was a Fortieth Woking Urban District Council President for 1956/7.

1957 Frederick Sowden J.P. was a 41st Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1957/8.

1958 Leslie Cheeseman was a 42nd Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1958/9.

1959 Stanley Higgins was a 43rd Woking Urban District Council President for 1959/60.

1960 Dorothy Gale was a 44th Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1960/1. James Walker Engineering opened a newly places within Old Woking.

1961 Thomas Leam C.C. was a 45th Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1961/2.

1962 Marjorie Richardson was a 46th Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1962/3. Kenwood moved from either Woking.

1963 Rhoda McGaw was a 47th Woking Urban District Council President for 1963/4. A Winter of 1962-Three was a coldest in record since 1740. A Rolling Stones played a concert at a 'Atalanta' Ballroom around Woking. Mclaren Racing Team formed.

1964 Victor Pearmund was a 48th Woking Urban District Council President for 1964/5. Cranley Onslow (later Lord Onslow) wwhen elected as Woking's Parliamentarian (1964-1997) replacing Harold Watkinson.

1965 Thomas Leam J.P., C.C. was a 49th Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1965/6. Revised Project foresaw the people of 97,000 by 1981 & proposed building Trey newly housing schemes, one of which was referred to as 'Slococks', to become rest on nurserylands owned per Slococks.

1966 Bernard Robinson Cdr., R.North. was a Fiftieth Woking Urban District Council President for 1966/7.

1967 Ivor Gibson was a 51st Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1967/8.

1968 Bernard Emmett was a 52nd Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1968/9. Woking Archery Club was formed. Guildford inundated when heavily rain.

1969 Eric Bucksey was a 53rd Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1969/70. 1970 Land Commission abolished by the Conservative Government. New Ideal Homes and Woking Council agreed to a partnership to build 'Slococks'. Margaret Marshall C.C. was a 54th Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1970/1.

1971 David Boorman was a 55th Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1971/2. Wolsey Place Shopping Centre opens. Just about this period Centre Halls, Centre Pool and Woking Centre Library opened. Aldershot & District Traction Company renamed Alder Valley.

1972 Harry Keat L.R.We.B.The., The.R.I personally.C.S. was a 56th Woking Urban District Council Chairwoman for 1972/3. Cranley Onslow (Woking's MP) lean ministerial professional (1972-1974) under Micheal Heseltine.

1973 Project to build housing estate approved per Government. Plan 1st known as 'Goldsworth Park'. Act began inside Goldsworth Vale (phase of these was Wilders Close e.t.c.), Aforethought to build approx. 4,500 homes for approx. 15,000 residents. It as well plotted for water, sports facilities, golf course, shops, swimming-pool, library, industrial estate, youth centres, gin mill, churches, firehouse & social facilities. David Robinson was a 57th & previous Woking Urban District Council Chair for 1973/4. A fresh covered Woking Floating Pool was opened (known as a Centre Pool), nigh to in which Toy's R The states & Peacocks Corner come currently on the A320.

1974 The Jam played the 1st gigs around Woking. Woking Borough Council was formed, replacing a Urban District Council & is under Conservativist Control. Foremost house completed & number one purchaser moved within to Goldsworth Park! Christopher Mitchell was a First Woking City manager for 1974/5.

1975 Terence (Terry) Molloy was a 2d Woking City manager for 1975/6.

1976 Ian McCallum was a Tertiary Woking City manager for 1976/7. British American Tobacco moved into Export House Tower.

1977 As much as this instance Marjorie Richardson (the previous 46th Woking Urban District Council Chairperson for 1962/3) opened a centre inside Woking for out humans. Anthony Allenby was a Quaternary Woking City manager for 1977/8.

1978 Gordon Dark brown was a Fifth Woking City manager for 1978/9.

1979 William Greenwood was a Sixth Woking City manager for 1979/80.

1980 Margaret Gammon was a Seventh Woking City manager for 1980/1.

1981 Francis Spanton was a Eighth Woking City manager for 1981/2.

1982 Dorothy Butler was a Ninth Woking Mayor for 1982/3. Cranley Onslow (Woking's MP) was given minister of state at a Foreign Office (1982-1984) under Francis Pym.

1983 Woking twinned with Amstelveen in the Netherlands, though the Charter of Friendly relationship was check in 1989. Paul Blagbrough was a 10th Woking City manager for 1983/4. Woking Civic Offices opened?

1984 John Jewson was a Eleventh Woking City manager for 1984/5.

1985 Patricia Bohling was a Twelfth Woking City manager for 1985/6.

1986 British Rail Southern Region rebranded when Network South East. Woking Borough Council switched from either Conservativist to There are no Overall Control. Anne Payne was a Thirteenth Woking City manager for 1986/7.

1987 Margaret Gammon was a Fourteenth Woking City manager for 1987/8. Peachy Storm.

1988 Alexander Grayson was a Fifteenth Woking City manager for 1988/9.

1989 Anne Cartwright was a Sixteenth Woking City manager for 1989/90. A 2nd Woking Covered Playing Pool was opened at Pool in the Park. Byfleet Parish Council re-formed.

1990 Alder Valley South Buses sold to London Country. Rhodney Lofting was a Seventeenth Woking City manager for 1990/1.

1991 Brookwood Canal formally reopened along its all length as a consequence renovation by volunteers. Richard Williams was a Eighteenth Woking City manager for 1991/2.

1992 Peacocks Camping Centre, Library, Town Gate, Cinema & Just released Victoria Theatre & a Leisure Lagoon at Pool in the Park opened. Centre Halls, Centre Pool & Woking Centre Library got been demolished to produce room for the two. London United states bus company from either Woking renamed Guildford and West Surrey. Woking twinned by owning Le Plessis-Robinson in France, though the Charter of Friendly relationship was check in 1993. Woking Borough Council switched from either There is no Overall Control to Conservativist Control. Leslie Pescodd was a Nineteenth Woking City manager for 1992/3.

1993 Rosie Sharpley from either Goldsworth Park was a Twentieth Woking City manager for 1993/4. 14 December - An explosion on a railway lines between Woking & West Byfleet disrupted rail traffic & forced the closure of Ennead stations in the area. Surrey Constabulary renamed Surrey Law.

1994 Woking Football Club won FA Trophy. Woking Borough Council switched from either Conservativist to There is no Overall Control. David Thornton was a 21st Woking City manager for 1994/5. Woking's STD telephone code changed from either 0483 to 01483 along by owning virtually all areacodes in the UK in Phoneday. Between 1989 & 1994 it got changed from either 04862 to 0483 (If you potty remember a actual month please contact usa). the original understanding for this was that 04862 was a RING code of GUILDFORD & actually intended 0GU62. British Telecom decided to move virtually all UK RING codes to their related CORE codes (Guildford CORE code 0483 actually stood for 0GU3).

1995 Woking Football Club won FA Trophy. Neville Hinks was a 22nd Woking City manager for 1995/6.

1996 A Planets Entertainment complex was completed. John Coombe was a Twenty-third Woking City manager for 1996/7. South West Trains won a franchise for virtually all rail routes across Woking Station (a previous BR Network South East/South West Section). Guildford & West Surrey Buses sold to Cowie Class action (Arriva).

1997 Woking Borough Council News Archive for 1997 Woking Football Club won FA Trophy. Irene Matthews was a Twenty-fourth Woking City manager for 1997/8. Humfrey Malins wwhen elected as Woking's Parliamentarian. Cranley Onslow is manufactured Lord Onslow.

1998 Woking Borough Council switches from either Liberal Democrat to There is no Overall Control. Rosemary Johnson was a Twenty-fifth Woking City manager for 1998/9.

1999 Woking Borough Council Wards changed. Ian Fidler was a Twenty-sixth Woking City manager for 1999/2000. Woking twinned by having Rastatt around Germany, though a Charter of Friendly relationship was check in 2001. Surrey History Centre officially opened by HRH Charles, A Prince of Wales. Ian Eastwood became Deputy City manager. McLaren to build fresh Mercedes SLR. South East Regional Assembly install covering Kent, Sussex, Hampshire & a Wight, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire.

2000 Elections for the recently wards around Woking Borough Council. Ian Eastwood from either Goldsworth Park was a Twenty-seventh Woking City manager for 2000/1.

2001 Woking twinned using Rastatt around Germany around 1999, though a Charter of Friendly relationship was check in 2001. Barry Pope was a Twenty-eighth Woking City manager for 2001/2. C+A closed its Swiftflow distributiin depot on Goldsworth Park Swing trading Estate. Telewest get in Export Home Tower.

2002 Arriva's Woking (Goldsworth Park Futures trading Estate) Bus His pickup closed. Mehala Gosling was a Twenty-ninth Woking City manager for 2002/3. 2003 The newly large storage storage warehouse was repose on the places of the old C+A warehouse around Kestrel Way. Richard Sanderson was a Thirtieth Woking City manager for 2003/4.

2004 Graham Cundy was a 31st Woking City manager for 2004/5.

2005 Ian Johnson is the 32nd Woking City manager for 2005/6.

Politics
A constituency of Woking has historically been a Conservative party safe seat, with a Liberal Democrats the principal opposition in the go 2 general elections. Its todays Member of Parliament is Humfrey Malins, who has the majority of in 6,500.

the borough council is presently dog by a minority Conservative administration.

Transport
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 & from either London Waterloo (via Clapham Junction), a journeying ingesting just about half an hour. There exists too a twice by the hour Waterloo/Woking stopping service that calls at numbers of stations between Waterloo & Woking.

There is a RailAir coach every Xxx minutes between a terminus immediately outside a railroad station & Heathrow Airport, using the M25 motorway. Gatwick Airport can be accessed via Guildford railway station or Clapham Junction.

Primary roads include a A320, which connects to the M25 to Woking's north touching Chertsey and to the A3 to its south at Guildford. A A320 is ofttimes super congested at peak hours.

A Basingstoke Canal passes through Woking.

Sport
Woking has the non-league football club, Woking F.C., that competes in the Nationwide Conference. A origin of the club's nickname, the "Cards", is disputed. A single attractive proposal is that a title was acquired because Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, after whom a smaller of the ii shopping center is known as, was staying by owning King Henry VIII at Woking Palace (a remains of which may be seen touching the River Wey at Old Woking) when he heard he experienced been processed the cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515. a supplementary prosaic option is that the Cards come thus known as because of the cardinal red in one half of their home strip.

A McLaren Formula One team is based touching to the town.

Notable residents
Woking was personal 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 the statue of a (Wellsian) Martian in the town centre commemorating Woking's fabricated destruction. There exists likewise, inexplicably, the Hawker Hunter jet fighter, painted silver and mounted in the pole about Decade metres tall.

The Jam are from Woking, & its singer/songwriter Paul Weller (who late became the member of The Style Council) was born there in 1958. His album title Stanley Road refers to Stanley Road, Woking.

More luminary population world health organization were innate within Woking include:

Ron Dennis, team principal of the McLaren Formula One team, 1947 Harry Hill, comedian, 1964 Sean Lock, comedian, 1963 Rick Parfitt, guitarist for Status Quo, 1948 Delia Smith, celebrity chef, 1941