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11 unusual facts about Woking


1987 Austrian Grand Prix

His crash caused McLaren to have to fly a spare car overnight from the teams base in Woking.

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Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, Surrey, the first purpose-built mosque in the United Kingdom

2007 Chinese Grand Prix

As usual in the 2007 season, the Ferraris and McLarens occupied the top 4 spots in qualifying, with Italian team's Felipe Massa pipping his Woking opposite number, Fernando Alonso, to third place.

F. P. Raynham

In 1923 Raynham married Margery "Dodie" McPherson in Woking.

Francesco Di Carlo

He bought a mansion in Woking, in Surrey, in the stockbrokers-belt near London.

Frithuwold of Chertsey

The core of these lay in the lands of the Woccingas, around modern Woking, probably bounded by the Fullingadic, perhaps an earthwork although it has been suggested that it could instead have been a Roman road, to the east.

George Charles Champion

Much of his work was with exotic Coleoptera, but he also wrote faunistic papers, mainly on beetles from Woking, Surrey, where he lived.

Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour

From 1901 Balfour lived at Fisher's Hill House, a large home which he had built by Lutyens in Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, also living in the rural hamlet by 1911 were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) who married into his wider family and the Duke of Sutherland.

Godley Hundred

Pyrford is within the Godley hundred but unusually lies within the Woking parish.

John Braine

Following his literary success, John Braine moved to the south of England, living for a time in Woking.

Westfield L.F.C.

Westfield Ladies are the women’s football team affiliated with Westfield F.C., based in Westfield, Woking, Surrey.


2007–08 Woking F.C. season

Following the defeat at home to Stevenage Borough on 8 April, Woking agreed to part company with manager Frank Gray and his assistant Gerry Murphy, by mutual consent.

Aidan Murphy

A short spell with Scarborough at the beginning of the 1992–1993 season signalled the end of his league career and he dropped into the non-league ranks to enjoy short spells with Woking, Mossley and Witton Albion.

Andy Pape

Born in Hammersmith, Pape played club football in England and Denmark for Feltham, Queens Park Rangers, Charlton Athletic, Ikast FS, Crystal Palace, Harrow Borough, Enfield, Barnet, Woking, Dagenham & Redbridge, Sutton United and Aldershot Town.

Audio Arts

The project was launched in 1973 by Barry Barker and British sculptor William Furlong, born 1944 in Woking, Great Britain.

BIW Technologies

In January 2005, the company relocated its head office from London to Woking in Surrey.

Bradley Bubb

He also spent a loan spell at Woking, and after leaving Aldershot, played in Belgium for Royal Antwerp.

FA Trophy

Former Northern Ireland international Martin O'Neill, in his first managerial role, led Wycombe Wanderers to two wins, and Geoff Chapple managed Kingstonian to victory twice and Woking three times, all within the space of seven years.

Francis David Morice

Francis David Morice (23 June 1849, St John's Wood - 21 September 1926, Woking) was an English entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

Horsell

It is also the home of Woking and Horsell Cricket Club, whose members have included Alec and Eric Bedser.

James Dudgeon

During York's 1–0 defeat to Woking on 29 December 2006, Dudgeon was sent off as Matt Crossley head-butted him, after he, a York substitute, tried to intervene as a peacemaker during a touchline tussle between Neal Bishop and Woking's Danny Bunce.

Jeanette Pickersgill

She was the first person to be legally cremated in the United Kingdom at Woking Crematorium in Woking, Surrey.

Libertarian Alliance

The original Libertarian Alliance was founded in 1977 by Mark Brady, Judy Englander, David Ramsay Steele and Chris Tame in Woking.

Matt Crossley

During Woking's 1-0 victory over York City on 29 December 2006, Crossley head-butted York substitute James Dudgeon, after he had tried to intervene as a peacemaker during a touchline tussle between Neal Bishop and Woking's Danny Bunce.

Matthias Sperling

Current projects include a collaboration with Senegal-based choreographer Andreya Ouamba for Woking Dance Festival and a collaboration with Siobhan Davies, to be performed in spring 2009.

Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common

The monument was restored in the 1990s as a result of financial support from a local resident of Woking, the musician Paul Weller.

On the Fiddle

The fighting scenes in the woods were shot in and around "The Sandpit" on Horsell Common near Woking, Surrey.

Ratanji Tata

He died on September 5, 1918 at St Ives in Cornwall, England and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, near London, by the side of his father (Jamsetji Tata).

Ronald Ridout

From 1939 to 1950 he worked as a teacher at schools in Bolton, Luton, Nuneaton, Portsmouth, Shrewsbury and Woking.

The Lightbox

The Lightbox is a museum in Woking near London, England, which mainly focuses on art, sculpture and inventions, as well as having a permanent exhibit on the History of Woking.

Whittingehame

In 1817 they sold Whittingehame and Stoneypath, near Garvald, to James Balfour (father of the Politician Arthur James Balfour, Whittingehame, East Lothian, Scotland, 1848 - Woking, Surrey, 1930), second son of John Balfour, 5th of Balbirnie in Fife, who had made a large fortune in India.

Woking College

The college is also used by other organisations such as English courses for foreign students during the summer holidays and also as a training hall for the Korean martial art Choi Kwang-Do, with the Woking CKD school being based at the college.

Woking Palace

Woking Palace is a former manor house of the Royal Manor of Woking on the outskirts of Woking, near the village of Old Woking, Surrey.