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Old Woking is a ward and the original settlement of the town and borough of Woking, Surrey, about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) southeast of the modern town centre.It is bounded by the Hoe Stream to the north and the River Wey to the south and between Kingfield to the west and farmland to the east.
St Johns and Hook Heath is a suburban ward in Surrey consisting of two settlements founded in the 19th century in the medieval parish of Woking.The two 'villages' have residents' associations and are centred 2.5 km WSW and SW of Woking's town centre in the northwest of the English county – by including such suburbs, Woking is the largest town in the county.
Queenwood Golf Club is a golf club near Ottershaw in Surrey, England. The club is only open to members and their guests. [1] [2] The club was developed by the American entrepreneur Frederick D. Green. [3] The American businessman Walter Forbes was also involved in the creation of the club. [4] Green had previously developed the Eagle Springs ...
Woking appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wochinges. Its description there is complex, since it was then held as three estates, by King William the Conqueror, Walter FitzOther, constable of Windsor Castle, and Ansgot and Godfrey from Osbern FitzOsbern, then bishop of Exeter. [7] There is evidence of a Roman settlement to the east of Old ...
Woking Hockey Club, Goldsworth Park. Woking Hockey Club was founded in 1904. It is based at Goldsworth Park, and its facilities include two AstroTurf pitches. [335] The Hockey Museum opened in Butts Road in 2012 [336] and moved to its current premises in the High Street in December 2017. [337] [338]
The third location for drinking is The Yeoman, a Harvester pub-restaurant, on the Old Woking Road in the neighbouring village of West Byfleet. Instead, two social venues in Pyrford are the Pyrford Social Club, a membership club, next to the cricket club and the Twisted Stone golf club situated on Pyrford Road and open to the general public ...
Its winding main street, High Road, contains old large public houses and several timber-framed houses, as well as other 16th and 17th century houses with listed status [citation needed]. The former Brooklands motor racing circuit is located just to the north, while to the east, across the River Wey, is the former Silvermere estate, now a golf club.
J C Stobart (1878–1933), author lived latterly by West Byfleet Golf Course, but buried at (Old) Byfleet (inc. of The Glory That Was Greece) Dame Anna Neagle (1904–1986) one of Britain's leading film stars in the late 1930s and 1940s, specialising in romantic comedies and costume biographies