Woking
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 19 ′ N , 0 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 63,000 | ||
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| Post town | WOKING | ||
| ZIP code section | GU21, GU22 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South east | ||
| Shire county | Surrey | ||
| District | Woking | ||
| Website: www.woking.gov.uk | |||
Woking [ ˈwəʊkɪŋ ] is a town in the district of Woking with about 63,000 inhabitants and a district in the west of the county of Surrey in England .
Cityscape and landmarks
The Shah Jahan Mosque was built in 1889 as one of the first mosques in Western Europe by the orientalist Gottlieb William Leitner with funds from Indian Muslims and has been maintained by a foundation ever since . In 1913 the Ahmadiyya Andschuman Ischat-i-Islam Lahore (AAIIL) founded a mission station and provided the mosque's imam until around 1964. Since then, the mosque has been used by Sunni Muslims.
The Brookwood Cemetery : The large final resting place for about 240,000 people; the capital city cemetery of London since 1852 and until the 20th century is also a military cemetery .
At the. September 15, 2007 The Lightbox, a new exhibition space with two galleries, opened. This modern building, right next to the Basingstoke Canal , was designed by the architects Marks Barfield, who also developed the plans for the London Eye .
Economy and Transport
Woking is the headquarters of SABMiller , the world's second largest brewery. Woking is also home to the McLaren Technology Group and thus u. a. of the famous Formula 1 racing team McLaren .
Woking Station is on the Portsmouth Direct Line between London and Portsmouth and is around 25 minutes from London Waterloo Station .
Sports
Twin cities
sons and daughters of the town
- Samuel Morton Peto (1809–1889), railroad entrepreneur
- Roderic Coote (1915-2000), Anglican bishop
- Derek Goodwin (1920–2008), ornithologist and author of bird identification books
- John WN Watkins (1924–1999), political scientist, philosopher and philosophy of science
- Kenneth Frampton (* 1930), British-American architect, architectural historian and author
- Les Reed , OBE (1935–2019), songwriter, musician, arranger and orchestra leader
- Trevor Wye (* 1935), flautist
- Delia Smith , CH, CBE (* 1941), TV cook and author
- Gus Dudgeon (1942–2002), music producer
- Dave Greenslade (born 1943), keyboardist
- Ian Ogilvy (born 1943), actor
- Jacqueline Pearce (1943-2018), actress
- Billie Davis (born 1945), singer
- Ron Dennis , CBE (* 1947), entrepreneur and former motorsport manager
- Malcolm Harbor , CBE (born 1947), politician
- Martin Birch (1948–2020), music producer and sound engineer
- Elizabeth Lynne (* 1948), politician
- Rick Parfitt (1948–2016), guitarist and singer with Status Quo
- Paul Halas (* 1949), comic book author
- Brian Hooper (born 1953), pole vaulter
- Paul Weller (* 1958), Bruce Foxton (* 1955) and Rick Buckler (* 1955), whose band The Jam is one of the most successful in British music history
- Tony Wakeford (* 1959), musician from the Neofolk environment
- Michael Axworthy (1962–2019), scientist and writer
- Rachel Ward (* 1964), author of children's books
- Sean Henry (born 1965), artist
- Anna Wilson-Jones (born 1970), actress
- Tom Mison (born 1982), actor
- Sam Underwood (born 1987), actor
The oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty (1892–1976) and Herbert George Wells (1866–1946), who made Woking the setting for his famous novel War of the Worlds , and the composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth (1858–1944 ) also lived here ).
Trivia
In his book The deeper meaning of Liff , Douglas Adams gave facts, feelings and objects for which there is no name yet with place names. "Woking" (ptcbl. Vb.) Means:
- Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.
The German translation by Sven Böttcher in Der deeper Sinn des Labenz reads: " Sindelfingen " (V.) - Standing in the kitchen and wondering why you actually entered it.
Web links
- Woking
- Visions of Britain - Woking ( Memento October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Aerial views of Woking
Individual evidence
- ^ Marks Barfield - Lightbox architects The Guardian newspaper
- ↑ See Town twinning - Woking Borough Council ( December 2, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ), read May 19, 2008.