Woking (gbr)

Woking

Woking ranks 2,332nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind East London, South Africa, Connecticut, and Ventura, California. Memorable people born in Woking include Ron Dennis, Rick Parfitt, and Martin Birch. Memorable people who died in Woking include J. Paul Getty, William Ernest Henley, and W. O. Bentley. Woking has been the birth place of many singers, and actors and the death place of many businesspeople, and writers. Woking is located in United Kingdom.

Woking is a town and borough in north-west 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