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St Peter's was originally the parish church of Woking prior to the development of a new urban area, now called Woking, centered on the railway station. The village of Woking subsequently became known as Old Woking. The Domesday Book records a church at "Wochinges" (an old name for Woking). [3]
The village of Old Woking, though much rebuilt, predates the rest of Woking by over 1000 years and still contains many historic buildings; the Old Wokings Residents' Association architectural group has recorded over 100 buildings in St Peter's parish built before 1700. More than 50 buildings have been listed by English Heritage. [3]
From that era survives St Peter's Church in Old Woking [13] and the parish churches of the nearby villages of Horsell, [14] Byfleet [15] and Pyrford, [16] all now subsumed by the growing town. The Basingstoke Canal was dug across Woking Common in 1794, and the South West Main Line , one of southern England's most important railway lines, was ...
St Peter's Church, Old Woking. The Church of England churches in the borough belong to the Woking Deanery, part of the Diocese of Guildford. [248] Eight of the churches are listed, including three that are Grade I listed. St Peter's Church, Old Woking is the oldest surviving building in the borough.
Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, Albury. More images. Chapel of St Catherine: Artington: Chapel: ... Church of St Peter: Old Woking: Church: 1776: 22 July 1953
The canal was also influential in the growth of the community. Due to the inconvenience of travelling to the nearest parish church (St Peter's in Old Woking), the vicar of St Peter's, Rev'd Charles Bowles, amassed £1,500 in order to serve the western end of the parish of St Peter's, i.e. the new community now known as 'St Johns'. [2]
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Old Woking, with its chapels of Horsell and Pyrford; Send; St. Martha, St Marth's Hill, Guildford; Wanborough; Weybridge; Windlesham with its chapel; Leigh all in Surrey; and Shipton with its (suspected near Snoddington Manor) chapel of Snodington, Hampshire. People; Founder(s) Rauld de Calva and his wife Beatrice de Saudes: Important ...