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Woking
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Woking ( ) is a town and borough in north-west Surrey, England, around from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as Wochinges, and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the Palaeolithic, but the low fertility of the sandy local soils meant that the area was the least populated part of the county in 1086. Between the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries, new transport links were constructed, including the Wey Navigation, Basingstoke Canal and London to Southampton railway line. The modern town was established in the mid-1860s
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- Settlement.official_name
- WokingBorough of Woking
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- GMT
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- 0
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- BST
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- +1
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and non-metropolitan borough
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- Sovereign state
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- Constituent country
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- Region
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- Non-metropolitan county
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- Status
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- Admin HQ
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- United Kingdom
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- England
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- Non-metropolitan district
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- Non-metropolitan district council
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- MPs
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Woking
- Population
- 62796
- Area
- 63.57
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Capital of
- Woking
- Shares border with
- Ottershaw
- Official website
- www.woking.gov.uk/woking
- Image
- Woking town centre from the west.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01483
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- twinned administrative body
- Le Plessis-Robinson
- Commons category
- Woking
- topic's main category
- Category:Woking
- postal code
- GU22
- OS grid reference
- TQ003584
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Woking
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Woking
- different from
- Wokingham
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Woking
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Georg Christian Füchsel
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Article · Italiano
Woking è una località di 62 796 abitanti della contea del Surrey, in Inghilterra. Woking rientra nell'area metropolitana di Londra, trovandosi a 51 km a sud della stazione di Charing Cross. La località è nota principalmente per essere il luogo di nascita di Richard Benson e per la presenza dell'azienda e scuderia di F1 McLaren. Nel luogo si trova anche uno storico crematorio. La prima persona a venirvi cremata in via ufficiale fu Jeanette, la moglie del pittore Henry William Pickersgill, nel 1885. Woking è il luogo dove la giornalista Deborah James, che aveva raccontato la sua battaglia contro il cancro, morì il 28 giugno 2022. Woking è la cittadina in cui è ambientata "La guerra dei mondi" di H. G. Wells.
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