• Oil paintings at Surrey History Centre, Woking The following oil paintings are included in The...
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• Woking: Shah Jehan Mosque The Mosque, with formal gardens on a ...

Did You Know?

• Horsell Common was the scene for H.G.Well's depiction of the Martian invasion of Earth, in War of the Worlds.
  

• Also found on Horsell Common are two fine Bronze Age (2500 – 700) bell barrows. John Aubrey, the antiquarian, visited the site in 1718 and commented: "On the heath in this Parish are two round Hills or Barrows, supposed to have been the Burial-Place for Men slain in Battles."

• Woking is also home to the first mosque in the country, the Shah jehan mosque, built in 1889.
  
  
• During the First World War, over 760 people who either lived or worked within the boundaries of the modern Borough of Woking lost their lives.

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