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The object of this website is to provide historical information on Old Woking village and the ancient parish of St Peter’s, Old Woking. Use is permitted provided that such use is for non-commercial purposes and the source of the information is acknowledged.

 

This website features the village of Old Woking now part of the commuter town of Woking. The village is, however, the original town of Woking. What is now known as Woking only dates from 1838 when the railway came to Woking Common and a rail station was established there. No building in present day Woking is older than Victorian and the Borough planners are busily transforming what remains of Victorian Woking into modern blocks of flats and offices but here and there some historic buildings have managed to survive.

 

You will mainly find here details of buildings built prior to 1700 most of which but not all are listed. There being no natural stone in this part of Surrey most of these buildings are timber framed but there a number of brick houses.

 

The buildings described are not only those in Old Woking village as the intention is to cover not only the village but pre-1700 buildings in the original ancient parish of St Peter’s, Old Woking. Up to 1840 or thereabouts the parish stretched up to St John’s and Knaphill and included Sutton with its Tudor Sutton Place. The other parts of Victorian Woking were in the ancient parishes of Byfleet, Horsell and Pyrford.

 

The Navigation Bar on the left of this page should be used to find information on St Peter’s church (including its tile collection and the Great Oak Door), early Woking maps Old Woking houses and the Building Accounts for nearby Woking Palace.

 

All information is provided in downloadable pdf files

Last updated 2nd May 2010

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