Woking (gbr)

Woking

Woking ranks 1,830th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Roman Italy, Kandahar, and Stratford-upon-Avon. Memorable people born in Woking include Ron Dennis, Rick Parfitt, and Paul Weller. Memorable people who died in Woking include Arthur Balfour, W. O. Bentley, and Ethel Smyth. Woking has been the birth place of many singers and actors and the death place of many politicians and inventors. Woking is located in United Kingdom.

Woking 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. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the Paleolithic, but the low fertility of the sandy local soils meant that the area was the least populated part of the county in 1086. Between the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries, new transport links were constructed, including the Wey Navigation, Basingstoke Canal and London to Southampton railway line. 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. Read more on Wikipedia