Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Woking. You may be able to find further references to Woking in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Woking market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
Woking hundred Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Woking.

Place Type of entry Source
CRASTOCK a tything Imperial
Goldsworth tithing Bartholomew
GOLDSWORTH, or Goldings a tything Imperial
Hale End tithing Bartholomew
HALE-END a tything Imperial
Heath Side tithing Bartholomew
HEATH-SIDE a tything Imperial
HOEBRIDGE a hamlet Imperial
Hook Heath place Bartholomew
Hook Hill place Bartholomew
KINGFIELD, or KENVILLE a tything Imperial
MAYFORD a tything Imperial
Mayford Green village Bartholomew
Shackleford hamlet Bartholomew
SHACKLEFORD a tything Imperial
SUTTON a tything Imperial
Sutton Place seat Bartholomew
TOWN-STREET a tything Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Woking within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Camden Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Hoebridge 0 2
Horsell 0 2
Maybury 0 1
Knaphill 0 2
Newark Priory 0 2
Pyrford 3 3
Sutton 0 2
Godley 0 2
Bisley 0 2
Send 1 3
Burgham 0 2
Ripley 0 2
West End 0 2
Chobham 0 2
Ottershaw 0 2
Worplesdon 0 2
Stoughton 0 1
Byfleet 0 2
Stoke Next Guildford 0 2
Pirbright 0 2