woking

olspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Borough of Woking
olspan=2 align=center\| Shown within Surrey
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Geography
idth="45%"\|Status:	Borough
a href="/encyclopedia/Regions-of-England" title="Regions of England">Region:	South East England
dmin. County:	Surrey
a href="/encyclopedia/Surface-area" title="Surface area">Area: - Total	Ranked 287th 63.60 km²
dmin. HQ:	Woking
a href="/encyclopedia/ONS-coding-system" title="ONS coding system">ONS code:	43UM
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Demographics
a href="/encyclopedia/Population" title="Population">Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 250th 89,431 1,406 / km²
thnicity:	91.3% White 5.8% S.Asian
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Politics
olspan=2 align=center\| Woking Borough Council http://www.woking.gov.uk
a href="/encyclopedia/Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors" title="Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors">Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
xecutive:
a href="/encyclopedia/MPs-elected-in-the-UK-general-election,-2001" title="MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001">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 has a non-league football club Woking F.C., known as the Cardinals (or "Cards"). 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. Celebrity chef Delia Smith was born in Woking in 1941, singer/songwriter Paul Weller (of The Jam and The Style Council) in 1958. The Basingstoke Canal passes through Woking. Woking is the home of the McLaren Formula One team. There is a statue of a (Wellsian) Martian in the town centre.

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