Woking is a large town and civil parish that shares its name with the surrounding local government district, located in the west of Surrey, 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 surrounding district, has a population of 62,796 and the civil parish, which covers part of the urban area inclusive of Sheerwater and Knaphill, has a population of 30,403. It should be noted that this population should not be confused with the local government district (the borough of Woking), which has an approximate population of 90,700 (2006 estimate). 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. Modern Woking formed around the railway station, built over 150 years ago at the junction between lines to London, the south coast, and the south-west of England, and the private railway to Brookwood Cemetery, which was developed by the London Necropolis Company as an overflow burial ground for London's dead. As a result, the original settlement became known as "Old Woking". 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.
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Some Local Attractions are :
RHS Garden Wisley :
www.RHS.org.uk/Wisley
Bisley Shooting Ground : www.bisleyshooting.co.uk
Other Popular Attractions in Surrey