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The interior of the chapel The cremator at Woking Crematorium in the 1870s, before the chapel and buildings were constructed Woking Crematorium in the early 20th century. Woking Crematorium was founded in 1878, when a piece of land close to St John's Village was bought by Sir Henry Thompson. He was a surgeon and Physician to the Queen.
The earliest evidence of human activity in the Woking area is from the Paleolithic. Flints dated to c. 13000 years before present (BP) have been found at Horsell, and knife blades from c. 12000 – c. 11000 BP have been discovered at Pyrford. [35] Two bell barrows and a disc barrow at Horsell are thought to date from the early Bronze Age.
In 1888, 28 cremations took place at the venue. In 1891, Woking Crematorium added a chapel, pioneering the concept of a crematorium being a venue for funerals as well as cremation. The Cremation Society of Great Britain drew up the original forms of certification for cremation which were to be adopted as the basis for the first Cremation Act in ...
Canley Cemetery and Crematorium, Coventry; Gornal Wood Cemetery and Crematorium, Brierley Hill; Lodge Hill Crematorium, Birmingham; Powke Lane Crematorium, Rowley Regis; Robin Hood Cemetery and Crematorium, Solihull; Rycroft Crematorium, Walsall (defunct) Sandwell Valley Crematorium, West Bromwich; Stourbridge Crematorium; Streetly Crematorium ...
Maitland Crematorium, South Africa. A crematorium, crematory or cremation center is a venue for the cremation of the dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium can also be a venue for open-air cremation.
[103] [note 15] Although the LNC was hostile to the idea of cremation, [100] Woking Crematorium was the only operational crematorium in the country. [ 83 ] [ note 16 ] Since the Necropolis Railway provided the easiest way to transport bodies and mourners from London to the Woking area, transport to and from Woking Crematorium soon began to ...
The Wokingham built up area now extends beyond the parish boundary. Following the 2021 census, the Office for National Statistics has defined a Wokingham built up area which covers most of the parish of Wokingham and parts of neighbouring parishes, notably Finchampstead to the south and Barkham to the south-west.
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.