Woking

Borough of Woking
Shown within Surrey
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Surrey
Area: - Total	Ranked 287th 63.60 km²
Admin. HQ:	Woking
ONS code:	43UM
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 250th 89,431 1,406 / km²
Ethnicity:	91.3% White 5.8% S.Asian
Politics
Woking Borough Council http://www.woking.gov.uk
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MP:	Humfrey Malins

Woking is a large town in England, in the west of Surrey. It is about 30 minutes by train from London. Woking was formed around the station built there over 150 years ago to act as a junction between trains to the south coast and the necropolis railway to Brookwood cemetery. Later, Woking was home to the first crematorium in the United Kingdom (St Johns) and the first mosque in the UK (on Oriental Road). It was also the location for Brookwood Cemetery, which was developed by the London Necropolis Company as an overflow burial ground for London's dead.

It is now a dormitory town for commuters into London and Heathrow airport, and gives its name to a local government district with borough status.

Woking is famous for its football club Woking F.C..

It was also home to H.G. Wells, who had the Martians in The War of the Worlds land in the town, and to Dame Ethel Smythe.

The Basingstoke Canal passes through Woking.