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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 . In 1874, he was a founder and first president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain .
Locator map of the Borough of Woking (red) — in Surrey, England. ... Woking College; Woking Crematorium; Woking F.C. Woking High School; Woking Hockey Club;
Woking Crematorium, the oldest in the United Kingdom. Guildford Crematorium; Randalls Park Crematorium, Leatherhead; Woking Crematorium; Tyne and Wear.
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 ...
Woking Crematorium, close to St John's, was opened in March 1885 as the first purpose-built crematorium in the UK. [359] The required land was purchased from the London Necropolis Company in 1878 by Sir Henry Thompson, founder of The Cremation Society. [360] The crematory and columbarium were built in 1879 [361] and the chapel was added in 1888 ...
In 1924 'Woking Offers' free paper advertising local traders started. By 1928 'Woking Offers' was renamed 'Woking Outlook' to be renamed 'Woking Review' in 1933. It is believed to be the oldest free newspaper in Britain. In 1924 Waterer's Park was left to Woking U.D.C. by Anthony Waterer of Knaphill Nursery. Knaphill Football Club started ...
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In 1849 Brookwood Cemetery was established near Woking to serve the population of London, connected to the capital by its own railway service. It soon developed into the largest burial ground in the world [citation needed]. Woking was also the site of Britain's first crematorium, which opened in 1878, and its first mosque, founded in 1889.