Stone Age: Implements found at
Goldsworth Park
Bronze Age: Burial mounds on
Horsell Common
Roman: Coins and pottery found on
Horsell Common and in Old Woking
Saxon: Monastery in Old Woking,
probably on the site of St Peter’s Church
Norman: Woking was listed in the
Domesday Book, 1086
Medieval: Churches built in
Horsell, Old Woking, Pyrford and Byfleet
Horsell church (image courtesy of The
Lightbox)
1272: Woking Palace: A royal
residence by the Wey. In 1490 Henry VII signed the Treaty of Woking
here. It was the home of his mother, Margaret Beaufort
Ruins of Woking Palace
1651: The Wey Navigation was
opened for water traffic from the Thames to Guildford
1790: Goldsworth Nursery, one of
many commercial nursery gardens, opened in the area
1794: Basingstoke Canal completed,
linking the Wey Navigation to Basingstoke
Basingstoke Canal (image courtesy of
The Lightbox)
1838: The railway came with the
opening of Woking Common station on the London and Southampton
Railway
Woking railway station (image courtesy
of The Lightbox)
1854: Brookwood Cemetery, the largest
in Europe, with its own railway branch line, opened by the London
Necropolis Company
1885: The first legal cremation in
modern Britain took place at Woking Crematorium
1889: Shah Jehan Mosque, the
first in Britain
Shah Jehan mosque (image
courtesy of The Lightbox)
Late 19th and early 20th
century: Residents included H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw and
Dame Ethel Smyth
1850 to present: Woking grew to a
bustling commercial centre with 100,000 residents from many varied
backgrounds, while large areas of open common landremained, the
legacy of medieval society. Woking's social and economic
transformation in the last century and a half tells a complex and
dramatic story
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